Methane seeping from Arctic seabed may have an upside

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It’s been called the Arctic methane time bomb: a vast reservoir of frozen methane buried beneath the Arctic Ocean floor that, if were to melt and somehow reach the atmosphere, could trigger catastrophic climate change. It’s the ultimate end-of-life-as-we-know-it scenario. But could it actually happen? For nearly a decade now, scientists have debated the idea. […]

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June 5, 2017 at 12:46AM