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Geotimes October 2005 Lisa M. Pinsker	Feuding Over the Origins of Fossil Fuels The so-called inorganic or abiogenic oil idea has been getting more attention lately. With oil more expensive than ever and many people citing future shortages, understanding the origins of petroleum is increasingly relevant.
Chemistry World December 4, 2013 James Urquhart	Diamonds' redox reaction origins revealed Subduction zones -- boundaries between tectonic plates where the Earth's crust sinks into the hot mantle -- could be breeding grounds for diamond formation, according to Russian researchers.
Chemistry World January 31, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Ocean Hydrocarbons Made From Rocks Researchers investigating 60-meter high carbonate chimneys in the Atlantic Ocean have discovered that hydrocarbons seeping out from the vents don't come from a biological source such as bacteria, plants or animal matter.
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 Michael Gross	Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures.
Chemistry World June 2, 2011 James Urquhart	Methane activation by organometallic reagent US scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a metal-carbon multiple bond complex can activate methane.
Wired July 2000 Oliver Morton	Fuel's Paradise World-class contrarian Thomas Gold has a theory about life on the planet: It's pumping out of the Earth's crust - and it's swimming in oil.
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt	Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars.
Chemistry World March 13, 2014 Emma Stoye	Piece of Earth's interior 'ocean' found in diamond A tiny crystal found in a diamond has confirmed predictions about a giant store of water deep in the Earth's mantle.
Geotimes June 2006 Katie Unger	Ancient Methane-Makers Researchers extracted methane gas from hydrothermal dikes in Western Australia and say that microbes produced the gas, which is evidence of some of Earth's earliest life.
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Katia Moskvitch	Saturn's largest moon home to prebiotic 'soup' Scientists should expand their quest for life in other worlds by searching for any kind of liquid, not just water, say researchers.
Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier	Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Micro fuel cell packs power Researchers have built a propane-driven fuel cell that's not much bigger than a watch battery, but lasts much longer.
Chemistry World February 18, 2015 Emma Stephen	Nanoporous methane storage -- an impossible target? Methane could reduce global dependence on oil so the search is on for nanoporous materials to act as fuel tanks for this tricky-to-store gas, but things are not looking promising.
Chemistry World June 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Exploding molecule provides 3D bond images Researchers from the US and Germany have demonstrated a new way to obtain accurate three-dimensional images of molecules, with precise measurements of the geometry of the molecule's chemical bonds.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Revisiting the Lost City This discovery of this hydrothermal vent community has a wide range of implications, from Earth's methane cycles to the search for early life forms -- and life elsewhere in the universe.
Chemistry World August 16, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Plants' Methane Emissions Revised The news that trees and other plants can give off large quantities of methane took biologists and atmospheric chemists by surprise. Scientists have now fine-tuned their calculations and set an upper limit on plants' total methane emissions that almost halves their original suggestion.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Chemistry World April 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley	'Nickel famine' caused ancient oxygen rise A crucial increase in atmospheric oxygen that occurred around 2.4 billion years ago could have been triggered by a shortage of nickel in the oceans, according to Canadian researchers.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.
Chemistry World July 10, 2009 James Urquhart	Wider menu for methane-eating microbes Marine dwelling microbes that consume methane for energy and produce carbon dioxide may do so by using a larger array of oxidants than previously thought. This may offer insight into the possibility of extraterrestrial life on methane rich bodies like Mars.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	How Does Your Continent Grow? Data from ancient mantle rocks are helping to shore up the hypothesis that the continental crust was extracted in pulses, during periodic large melting events in the mantle.
Chemistry World April 28, 2009 Lewis Brindley	New catalyst means cheap hydrogen from power stations A new catalyst system could improve the efficiency of gas-fired power stations by producing hydrogen gas as a by-product, say Dutch researchers.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Deep Earth May Hold an Ocean Earth's deep interior, more than 1,000 kilometers below the surface in the mantle, could prove to be a watery place. That's the conclusion researchers drew from an anomaly uncovered by the first global map of Earth's lower mantle, using a new type of seismic analysis.
Chemistry World October 8, 2009 Hayley Birch	Molecular Snapshots Show Hydrate Growth US researchers have gleaned new insights into the formation of methane-rich hydrates found in the deep ocean.
Chemistry World August 5, 2009 James Urquhart	Martian methane breaks the rules Variations in methane concentration across Mars defy our current understanding of methane photochemistry, say French scientists.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? The case of the elusive source of methane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could soon come to a close, some astronomers say. A new model suggests that instead of storage within surface lakes or an ocean, methane lies inside an icy crust and periodic changes release it into the atmosphere.
Geotimes October 2003	Hydrocarbon oceans on Titan Ground-based radar telescopes finally have penetrated the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to yield the first reliable evidence that it might have hydrocarbon oceans.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Rivers Without evidence for methane-producing life, the leading hypothesis remains that Titan's visible volcanoes tap into an underground methane reservoir and bring it to the surface.
Chemistry World April 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Scientists Clash Over Methane Mystery The startling claim that trees could be responsible for putting millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year was published last year in the prestigious journal Nature. But that has now been rubbished by rival researchers who report that plants emit virtually no methane whatsoever.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Undersea Methane Not to Blame New research is indicating that for at least three abrupt warming periods over the past 40,000 years, the warming was accompanied by, but not caused by, an increase in methane, and the methane increase was from the land, not the sea.
Chemistry World August 31, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Ocean methane paradox' solved? Numerical simulation of methane production by methanogenic microorganisms suggests that up to 400 billion tonnes of methane could be sitting under the ice. If the ice sheet collapses due to a warming climate, this could release the gas, which in turn would increase warming, the researchers say.
Chemistry World April 23, 2009 Hayley Birch	Wetlands caused ancient methane belch Air trapped in ancient ice has revealed the likely source of the sudden spike in atmospheric methane concentrations that occurred at the end of the last ice age
Wired May 22, 2007 Amy Cortese	Belching Bovines Are Bad for the Environment: How to Clear the Air Thanks to a ruminant stomach and a diet heavy in grass, a single heifer belches up to 300 pounds of methane a day
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate	Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor.
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert	Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface.