Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Thawing Arctic Cryosphere Releases Trapped Methane

redOrbit: The edges of glaciers and Arctic permafrost are where most of the evidence of global warming can be seen, but scientists have recently been traveling to these remote locations for a different reason. Researchers from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks just published a study in the online edition of Nature Geoscience showing that methane trapped under arctic lake ice for millions of years is now being released by the melting ice. The team used both aerial and ground survey to locate over 150,000...

URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112539968/thawing-arctic-cryosphere-releases-trapped-methane/
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