ByTWC India Edit Team
3 days ago
TWC India
Chunks of frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean, famously known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle”, appear to have woken up now following unprecedented heatwave and ice melting around the north pole. Research suggests that deposits have begun leaking methane over a large area of around 1,500 sq. km., area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast,reportsThe Guardian.
Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential of 80, meaning a molecule of methane can lead to 80 times more warming than a carbon dioxide molecule. The methane trapped in the permanently frozen region of the arctic region is an accumulation of hundreds of thousands of years of biomass hidden from the atmosphere. As warming continues, the glacier melts, releasing large amounts of methane and…
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