Methane emissions discovered in Arctic Ocean
| Readers, there is a difference between what the scientists found last year and this year. This year, the spots of methane emissions are larger than one kilometer in diameter. I am not sure what the photo signifies. It might be showing the bubbling part next to a sea ice flow, but since there is no caption for the photo, this is just speculation. |
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Russian scientists have discovered spots in the Arctic Ocean where mass emissions of methane can be observed.
from the Voice of Russia Radio News, September 15, 2012
According to the press-service of
the expedition aboard The Viktor Buinitsky research vessel, the diameter
of some of the ‘methane fields’ found in the northern part of the
Laptev Sea exceeds 1 kilometre.
The new discoveries
will help to understand the mechanism of global warming on Earth,
experts believe. In their opinion, emissions of methane could have
catastrophic consequences for the climate of our planet.
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