Sentences with phrase «huge amounts of methane»
Gas hydrates contain huge amount of methane gas, and it is destabilization of these that is believed to have caused the craters on the Yamal Peninsula.
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It was evidence that the Bakken was leaking raw natural gas, including huge amounts of methane, which is 86 times more potent as a global warmer than carbon dioxide during the first nine years of its life.
When fully burned, gas releases less CO2 than coal or oil, but currently huge amounts of methane are escaping unburned into the atmosphere.
The lakes, which form when the surrounding permafrost thaws, «really flared up... emitting huge amounts of methane,» Walter concluded.
A far worse scenario can not be ruled out: some scientists believe the melting icecaps could release huge amounts of methane that accelerate warming forming a cloud layer so dense as to block out heat from the sun and cause the planet to go into a deep freeze that extinguishes all life.
500m wide and 10m high, the methane domes on the Arctic Ocean floor are containing huge amounts of methane.
They are associated with temporal changes in dissociation of gas hydrates - the icy substance that contains huge amounts of methane.
The finding might help explain the huge amounts of methane that occasionally belch from the seafloor, an event linked to rapid climate change.
They are associated with temporal changes in dissociation of gas hydrates — the icy substance that contains huge amounts of methane.
51 Eridani b has gotten cold enough that a huge amount of methane has formed in its atmosphere, which can't occur in a star's atmosphere.
Scientists have long believed that thawing permafrost in Arctic soils could release huge amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Global warming's greater than anticipated impact on permafrost will release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide as the soil thaws.
Many researchers predict that thawing permafrost could release huge amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide — as global temperatures rise.
The huge amounts of methane stored in the Arctic permafrost are belched into the atmosphere, causing more warming.