Sentence examples for methane from inspiring English sources

This diverts resources to landfill and gives rise to greenhouse gas emissions, because the rotting food produces methane that is not captured and adds to the concentration of carbon in the air.

Frack-Free Upton believe the toxic chemicals, methane gas and other pollutants produced during exploration drilling will contaminate the water supply.

Everything from our view of risk to our efforts to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from cars and methane emissions from cows will determine how much of the world's fossil fuel we need to leave in the ground.

It's much better for the environment to burn the methane from poo than from fossil fuels, after all.

They are building bio-centres – toilet facilities where human slurry is collected and put in a digester which collects the methane emitted from poo as it breaks down.

Earth's history is marked by a number of major mass extinctions of species, triggered by volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts and release of methane from sediments.

As the level of energy and temperature of the atmosphere increased, irreversible tipping points were reached where the synergy of feedback processes – ice melt, warming water, released methane, droughts and fires - combined to shift the climate from one state to the next.

During the case in Queensland's land court, Hancock Coal appointed an expert to submit a report outlining the emissions from the Alpha coalmine – accounting for all the mining operations, releases of methane from the ground, use of explosives, transport, shipping and the eventual burning of the coal in power plants.

Only about 1m tonnes of the waste is used to generate biogas, or methane, using anaerobic digestion techniquesthat are well-established in other parts of the world.

The methane is sold back to the slum dwellers as biogas, used for cooking within the centres or to power hot showers.

It has an atmosphere of nitrogen and methane and a surface temperature of about minus 230C.