Bubble plumes off Washington, Oregon suggest warmer ocean may be releasing frozen methane
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
Warming ocean temperatures a third of a mile below the surface, in a dark ocean in areas with little marine life, might attract scant attention. But this is precisely the depth where frozen pockets of methane ‘ice’ transition from a dormant solid to a powerful greenhouse gas. New University of Washington research suggests that subsurface […]