Environmental Innovation|May 7, 2025
The International Energy Agency’s Global Methane Tracker 2025 highlights progress in satellite monitoring and data transparency, while warning that emissions from fossil fuels remain stubbornly high. The report notes that cost-effective solutions could reduce emissions significantly and even deliver more usable natural gas to markets.
Environmental Innovation|April 29, 2025
A poll commissioned by the Global Methane Hub found strong backing worldwide for efforts to cut methane emissions. With more than three-quarters of respondents in 17 countries in favor, the survey shows public demand for action across agriculture, waste, and energy sectors.
Environmental Innovation|March 20, 2025
Reuters’ Valerie Volcovici reports that U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters will maintain methane monitoring and reduction efforts despite recent regulatory rollbacks. Exporters cite overseas market requirements, especially in Europe and Asia, as driving continued accountability.
Environmental Innovation|December 12, 2024
In The Economist, reporters explore how improved cattle farming practices could both reduce methane emissions and lift smallholder farmers out of poverty. From selective breeding to new feed and waste management technologies, the article highlights opportunities to boost productivity while easing environmental pressures.
Environmental Innovation|July 24, 2024
Environmental advocate and Mission Impact Lead for MethaneSat, Millie Chu Baird, details the heat-trapping side effects of a planet full of methane and explains why understanding where it comes from and taking steps to reduce it is the single most important thing we can do to affect climate change in our lifetimes.
Environmental Innovation|June 18, 2024
Methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. One of the biggest sources of methane: cow burps. But don't blame the cows! The methane is actually created by microbes in the cow gut. Innovative Genomics Institute researchers Ermias Kebreab and Matthias Hess at UC Davis and collaborators at UC Berkeley are working to develop new tools to block the microbes from creating methane in the first place, sparing the Earth — and the cow — from the effects of the gas.
Environmental Innovation|June 17, 2024
MethaneSAT successfully launched into space on March 4th, 2024. Since entering orbit, the team has been working steadily through the stages of commissioning and has even begun collecting initial data — an incredibly exciting milestone that brings us closer to a methane revolution.
Environmental Innovation|March 4, 2024
MethaneSAT is now in space! The methane-detecting satellite will measure pollution from millions of small sources around the world. It’s the first satellite developed and funded by any environmental nonprofit organization, Environmental Defense Fund.
Environmental Innovation|March 4, 2024
The Environmental Defense Fund invites you to learn more about the MethaneSat, a groundbreaking satellite to speed up cuts in methane emissions worldwide and slow global warming — fast.
Environmental Innovation|September 2, 2023
Methane is a greenhouse gas that often leaks from drilling sites and pipelines. A new satellite will hunt for methane leaks worldwide, which could significantly slow down global warming.