methane

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Energy producers separate it out from methane, nitrogen and other gases, then ship it as a supercooled liquid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The primary component of natural gas is methane, which, when burned, releases CO2 -- the leading greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

However the increase in concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- "to their highest level in at least 800,000 years" has "upset this equilibrium", the WMO said.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

But excessive tonnages of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride are changing Earth’s climate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

“Can’t, might set the black damp off,” the old miner said, using the colloquial term for methane.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam