A key selling point for natural gas over coal is that it burns cleaner, releasing less of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. But a study out this week challenges that assumption when it ...

From leading a Cornell research lab to being featured in The New York Times, Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and evolutionary biology, has spent his career studying and educating the public on climate ...

Robert Howarth is an Earth systems scientist and ecosystem biologist. He earned a BA from Amherst College (1974) and a Ph.D. jointly from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1979). After ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel ...

Robert Howarth is getting under the skin of the oil-and-gas industry. The gray-haired climate scientist says he doesn’t care. Howarth, a methane researcher at Cornell University, said in a recent ...

Available for Interviews: Robert Howarth, Ph.D., Cornell University and Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Science and Environmental Health Network With Republican leaders in Congress considering action to ...

A new study by Cornell professor Robert Howarth claims that LNG has a larger emissions footprint than coal over a 20-year period, challenging the conventional view that LNG is a cleaner alternative.

The climate change debate is finished. As an Earth systems scientist and professor at Cornell University, I can tell you that among my scientific colleagues globally, the debate was settled a decade ...

Each spring, the area in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Louisiana and Texas coasts turns into a "dead zone." Excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus--which make their way to the Gulf from the ...