Sentences with phrase «ocean methane»

«The evidence suggests this viral type is distributed around the globe in deep ocean methane seeps.»

Carbon negative: actions that pollute the land, water and atmosphere with various forms of carbon, for example, CO2 and methane into the atmosphere or plastics in the ocean

One thing I note is the relative lack of disambiguation between deep ocean methane sources and surface permafrost methane sources.

A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign has made a discovery that could help to answer this «ocean methane paradox.»

Contribution of oceanic gas hydrate dissociation to the formation of Arctic Ocean methane plumes

The discovery supports the hypothesis that huge releases of ocean methane contributed to the rapid warmings of the Earth that have ended past ice ages.»

Using the submarine Alvin, Valentine and colleagues collected samples from a deep - ocean methane seep by pushing tubes into the ocean floor and retrieving sediments.

What I learned about ocean methane was reasonably reassuring, with the caveat that scientists would like to know a great deal more about these deposits before declaring for certain that the hazard is minimal.

Dr. Archer has worked on the ongoing mystery of the low atmospheric CO2 concentration during glacial time 20,000 years ago, and on the fate of fossil fuel CO2 on geologic time scales in the future, and its impact on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs.

«Researchers establish long - sought source of ocean methane: An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas.»

The race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil fuel supply — methane trapped in frozen hydrates in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean

Several years ago, van der Donk and University of Illinois colleague William Metcalf found a possible clue to the mystery of ocean methane: They discovered a microbial enzyme that produces a compound called methylphosphonate, which can become methane when a phosphate molecule is cleaved from it.

and the examples that he thinks have the potential to be large scale tipping elements are: Arctic sea - ice, a reorganisation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, melt of the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice Sheets, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, a greening of the Sahara, Indian summer monsoon collapse, boreal forest dieback and ocean methane hydrates.

They took 5100 samples from 1080 stations, the largest database for any ocean methane study.

In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over times scales of decades to centuries.

and the examples that he thinks have the potential to be large scale tipping elements are: Arctic sea - ice, a reorganisation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, melt of the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice Sheets, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, a greening of the Sahara, Indian summer monsoon collapse, boreal forest dieback and ocean methane hydrates.