redOrbit: A recent study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet suggests that it could be a largely overlooked source of the potent greenhouse gas methane. An international team of scientists from the University of Bristol, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and the University of Utrecht, demonstrate that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted to methane by microbes living under oxygen-deprived conditions....
URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112684609/greenhouse-gas-methane-antarctic-ice-sheet-083012/
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