Sentences with phrase «significant amounts of methane»
While it has long been known that rice fields emit significant amounts of methane, this study is the first to look at methyl halide emissions there.
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Wells that produce significant amounts of methane can ignite right at the faucet, though sometimes this is naturally occurring and has nothing to do with fracking.
While Uranus and Neptune are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, they both contain significant amounts of methane ice, which gives them their bluish appearance.
If an anthropogenic thermal anomaly this century will eventually (and inexorably) propogate to and destabalize significant amounts of methane hydrates in future centuries — shouldn't this be a consideration for policy makers?
By heating and jostling the permafrost, the researchers have now managed to extract significant amounts of methane — the primary component of natural gas — from the field.
However, as the ESAS was only inundated by the sea about 8,000 years ago it would be highly unlikely to find that about 1.5 km thick subsea permafrost layer would have decomposed sufficiently by the Holocene Optimum to have allow significant amount of methane to leak through it.
The warming Arctic could add significant amounts of methane gas to the atmosphere as permafrost melts and releases huge quantities of gas trapped in previously frozen ground.
While hydroelectricity usually does not produce as much carbon as burning fossil fuels, studies have shown that dams, especially those in the tropics, emit significant amount of methane — a greenhouse gas which is approximately 20 times more potent than carbon — due to rotting vegetation in reservoirs.
To see how far back humans were producing significant amounts of methane, Sapart and her colleagues analyzed ice cores from Greenland.
Methane hydrates: significant amounts of methane hydrates are contained in sediments, especially on Arctic continental shelves.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.