Not exact matches
Industry, with the full support of the administration, continues the fait accompli of radically expanded natural gas fracking
across the country, with serious unresolved issues about fugitive
atmospheric methane emissions and the potential for contamination of drinking water aquifers — and with no adequate federal regulatory structure in place.
By characterizing
atmospheric gas mixing ratios (volume of gas per volume of air)
across the North Slope, scientists hope to improve the estimates of the volume of gases like carbon dioxide and
methane being emitted from biological sources such as Alaska's permafrost layer which stores large amounts of carbon.
Translating
across discipline - specific vocabularies was essential to understanding mismatches in estimates of
methane emissions from permafrost based on field measurements and on
atmospheric data.