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December 13, 2011

Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent:

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Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

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