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In the High Arctic, scientists discovered million-year-old methane (CH4) trapped under some of the world’s mightiest glaciers detected via unprecedented

In the High Arctic scientists discovered million-year-old methane (CH4) trapped under some of the world’s mightiest glaciers detected via unprecedented

In the High Arctic scientists discovered million-year-old methane (CH4) trapped under some of the world’s mightiest glaciers detected via unprecedented groundwater springs. Analyses of 123 springs found CH4 in all but one. As the massive glaciers recede, space opens at the edge of permafrost, releasing ancient methane. This is one more totally unexpected global warming

Spiking temperatures in the Arctic are rapidly melting glaciers. Scientists are now worried about underground methane, a potent greenhouse gas, leaking up to the surface.

Feedback Loop A harrowing new study suggests that melting Arctic glaciers are apparently releasing ancient stores of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. According to the study, which examined glacier retreat across the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, the methane is being released as diminishing glaciers reveal new, long-iced-over land. As the ice recedes, […]

Scientists found that rapidly retreating Arctic glaciers are triggering the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that causes global temperatures to rise, into the atmosphere.

This article by Arwyn Edwards, Reader in Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

The author writes that to properly understand the pace and force of what’s to come in the Arctic, we should focus on microbes.

The Arctic’s climate is warming at least four times faster than the global average.