Rapid Rise in Arctic Methane Shocks Scientists: Science in the News
Rapid
Rise in Arctic Methane Shocks Scientists
from the New Zealand Herald
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane—a greenhouse gas 20
times more potent than carbon dioxide—have been seen bubbling to the
surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive
survey of the region.
The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head
of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the
East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.
In an exclusive interview with the Independent, Dr. Igor Semiletov,
of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said
that he had never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane
being released from beneath the Arctic seabed.
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