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Numerous methane leaks found on Atlantic sea floor
2014-08-24 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceMag: And up through the ground came a bubbling greenhouse gas. Researchers have discovered 570 plumes of methane percolating up from the sea floor off the eastern coast of the United States, a surprisingly high number of seeps in a relatively quiescent part of the ocean. The seeps suggest that methanes contribution to climate change has been underestimated in some models. And because most of the seeps lie at depths where small changes in temperature could be releasing the methane, it is possible that...
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