Arctic Seafloor Releasing Methane Twice As Fast As Originally Estimated
According to the results of the research published Sunday in the journal, Nature Geoscience, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, or ESAS, which encompasses more than two million square kilometers of seafloor in the Arctic Ocean, is releasing at least 17 teragrams of methane into the atmosphere each year, compared to previous estimates of eight teragrams of methane. A teragram is equal to 1 million tons.
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