Photo Caption: This landfill in Comal County is 3,000 feet long and 1,300 feet wide. It can be seen from a considerable distance. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Landfills have a very long history, ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. We talk a lot about CO2 as a greenhouse gas and for good reason. Billions of metric tons of it go into the atmosphere every year, creating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions both in the U.S. and globally. These emissions heat the atmosphere at ...

This story is part of a series of check-ins on where things stand on big issues like housing, immigration and education at the midpoint of the State House calendar ...

Any climate action plan that wants to quickly turn the tide of global warming has to tackle methane, which traps orders of magnitude more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide in the first years ...