High Arctic Methane Levels Raise Concern
By
Associated Press
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 04, 2010
New report details methane effects on climate.
WASHINGTON - Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected.
Methane
had become trapped in the permafrost over time and a warming climate is
now resulting in its release, researchers report in Friday's edition of
the journal Science.
"The amount of methane currently coming out
of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is comparable to the amount coming
out of the entire world's oceans," said Natalia Shakhova, of the
University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center and
the co-author.
