Monday, May 21, 2012

Arctic Melt Releasing Ancient Methane

The BBC reports Arctic melt releasing ancient methane "Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere."

"But the researchers on the new Arctic project, led by Katey Walter Anthony from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF), were able to identify long-stored gas by the ratio of different isotopes of carbon in the methane molecules."

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