by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Turkmenistan may extinguish the “Gates of Hell,” a 50-year fire ignited in a collapsed gas-drilling well. In 1971, an oil survey discovered a natural gas pocket in the middle of the Karakum Desert, near the village of Darvaza in Turkmenistan. Part of the Soviet Union...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2019 | Climate Change, Information
A new study from the University of Bristol in England has shown that the Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane. How? Apparently it’s all about the critters that live under the ice sheet. According to the study’s lead author, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon of the...
by Admin | Dec 12, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Global warming is caused by much more than carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, researchers from Princeton University have determined that abandoned wells are a possibly substantial source of greenhouse gas via methane emissions. Some of these wells have monstrous...
