New York Times: Methane held underground by caps of Arctic ice is bubbling out as a warming climate causes those caps to melt, researchers report in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper offers some of the strongest field evidence yet that a melt-back of land ice can release methane. Removing an ice cap seems to work a bit like popping the cap on a bottle of soda, allowing pent-up gas to escape. In an interview, the paper`s lead author, Katey M. Walter Anthony of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, said...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/popping-the-cap-on-arctic-methane/
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