New research into the changing ecology of thousands of shallow lakes on the North Slope of Alaska suggests that in scenarios of increasing global temperatures, methane-generating microbes, found in thawing lake sediments, may ramp up production of the potent greenhouse gas — which has a global warming potential 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.
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Diverse sources of methane in shallow Arctic lakes discovered
30 marzo 2015
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