Beneath the sunlit surface of the open ocean, trillions of bacteria are quietly producing methane in waters long assumed to ...

Scientists have discovered that methane in the open ocean is produced by microbes under nutrient-poor conditions, solving a ...

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Jamie McFarlin, a UW assistant professor of geology and geophysics, is lead author of a research paper that was published in Science Advances. The study shows that sustained climate warming during the ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with more than 20 times greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Yet scientists admit that their knowledge about methane’s sources and movements ...

The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

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