Evidence Continues to Mount for Ticking 'Methane Time Bomb'
<div class='node-body'><p>New research that utilized both ground-based measurements and aerial surveys in specific sub-arctic regions in Alaska and Greenland has discovered approximately 150,000 'methane seeps' - a phenomenon where methane gas previously held in the frozen permafrost beneath tundras or under arctic sea ice, is steadily released when warming causes melting.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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