 AP Photo I’ve been in touch with Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, the intrepid Russian researchers, based at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, who for more than a decade have been leading an important international project analyzing methane plumes rising from the seabed in the shallow Arctic waters spreading north from eastern Siberian shores. (Here’s video of Shakhova describing the... TAGGED: methane, Arctic zone, New York TimesRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| In my article over the weekend about the climate risks from buried Arctic carbon, I omitted any discussion of one issue that sometimes appears in the news: methane deposits under relatively shallow seawater near the coasts of... more ›› |
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