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Researchers examine the link between drowned river deltas and methane emissions, and how they might be affected by rising sea levels
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rising Seas Increase Methane Emissions from the Mouths of Rivers

by E. Underwood 2 August 201826 October 2022

Drowned river deltas exhale large quantities of greenhouse gas, new study finds.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Methane, Climate Change, and Our Uncertain Future

by J. Dean 11 May 201829 September 2021

Methane is generally considered secondary to carbon dioxide in its importance to climate change, but what role might methane play in the future if global temperatures continue to rise?

Scientists use eddy covariance flux towers to measure methane release from permafrost near the Stampede Trail in Alaska.
Posted inScience Updates

Understanding High-Latitude Methane in a Warming Climate

by S. M. Miller, M. A. Taylor and J. D. Watts 13 March 20182 November 2021

Climate change could spur greenhouse gas release from the Arctic. A new project will synthesize existing data to improve uncertain predictions.

Kevin Webster takes cave air measurements
Posted inNews

Some Caves Remove Methane from the Atmosphere, New Tests Reveal

by L. G. Shields 5 March 20182 November 2021

Isotopic signatures pinpoint the sinks and surprising sources of methane in widespread karst caves. Researchers suggest that this type of cave globally removes more methane than it produces.

Researchers validate a new imaging method to characterize coal fractures
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Testing a New Tool That Illuminates Tiny Fractures in Coal

by Sarah Stanley 4 January 201815 March 2022

A computational model outperforms a widely used microcomputed tomography imaging method in characterizing coal fractures.

Researchers spot the culprit behind methane emissions from mountainous upland forests
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Why Mountainous Upland Forests Emit So Much Methane

by E. Underwood 22 December 20172 November 2021

New research suggests that moist tree heartwood produces methane and emits the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere.

Participants in the UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise split and examine sediment cores during the 2016 expedition.
Posted inScience Updates

Exploring Methane Gas Seepage in the California Borderlands

by A. G. Yanchilina, S. Yelisetti, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, N. Voss, T. B. Kelly, J. Brizzolara, K. L. Brown, J. M. Zayac, M. Fung, M. Guerra, B. Coakley and R. Pockalny 21 December 20176 October 2021

Early-career scientists aboard the 2016 UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise explored recently reactivated underwater methane seeps in the San Diego Trough.

Researchers put an old model to the test with new data to examine methane dynamics in wetland
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A New Model Yields a Better Picture of Methane Fluxes

by Elizabeth Thompson 27 November 20172 November 2021

Scientists update an old model with recent findings, allowing for a more accurate understanding of methane dynamics in wetlands.

New research suggests North American Arctic waters are neither source nor sink for greenhouse gasses
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Benchmark for Trace Greenhouse Gases in the Arctic Ocean

by Terri Cook 1 August 201728 March 2023

Samples of seawater from the North American Arctic show that the region is neither a major source nor sink of methane and nitrous oxide to the overlying atmosphere.

Wetlands of the Kobuk River Valley in Alaska.
Posted inScience Updates

Resolving a Methane Mystery in the Arctic

by A. D. McGuire, B. P. Kelly and L. Sheffield Guy 11 July 20172 November 2021

International Workshop to Reconcile Methane Budgets in the Northern Permafrost Region; Seattle, Washington, 7–9 March 2017

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