Science
New Methane Discharge Discovered in Russia’s Arctic – Guardian – The Moscow Times
The finding is prompting concerns that a new feedback loop that accelerates climate change may have already been triggered.
A new source of methane discharge has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean near eastern Siberia, raising concerns of a “new tipping point” that could speed up the pace of global warming, The Guardian reported Tuesday.
Scientists found the potent greenhouse gas bubbling from a depth of 350 meters in the Laptev Sea, with surface-level concentrations that vent into the atmosphere between four and eight times the normal amount. One of the six monitoring points showed methane concentrations 400 times…
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