A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes ...
WASHINGTON — Over half of US landfills observed by aerial surveys are super-emitting sources of methane, according to a new study in the journal Science published on Thursday. The study is the ...
Aerial observations of hundreds of large landfills across 18 states found they are leaking 40 percent more methane than is reported to the EPA Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent Methane plumes ...
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes ...
Rotting food scraps and other waste that piles up in landfills across the country are a larger driver of the climate crisis than previously known. Methane leaks from landfills were, on average, 40 ...
A new study looking at landfill emissions revealed the industrial waste dumps are likely punching above their weight when it ...
Every year, Americans dump over 250 million metric tons of garbage into landfills, where it seems to magically disappear from our lives. In reality, our trash either gets fossilized or digested by ...
Innovations in waste management are helping landfills operate more sustainably through investment in technology that converts ...
A PFAS-contaminated landfill in the small town of New Lebanon, New York will close thanks to $2 million in the ...
Most Americans are unaware that reducing methane emissions is the single most impactful action we can take right now to slow global warming. This super-pollutant’s ability to trap heat and warm ...
This super-pollutant’s ability to trap heat and warm the planet is about 80 times greater than carbon dioxide. When people think of methane, it’s often of belching cows or leaking pipes, but our trash ...