Diverse sources of methane in shallow Arctic lakes discovered
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 11:01
in Earth & Climate
New research into the changing ecology of thousands of shallow lakes on the North Slope of Alaska suggests that in scenarios of increasing global temperatures, methane-generating microbes, found in thawing lake sediments, may ramp up production of the potent greenhouse gas -- which has a global warming potential 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.