Hunting for Methane Hot Spots at the Top of the World

Exposing the Big Game's avatarThe Extinction Chronicles

A visit to an Alaskan wetland with some of the world’s highest lake marsh methane emissions brings scientists one step closer to understanding the phenomenon.

By Jenessa Duncombe26 April 2023

An aerial photograph of a remote, forested lake surrounded by forest.
Permafrost from the last ice age underlies Goldstream Valley’s Big Trail Lake (right). Credit: Ken Tapes

It was winter in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the moose were grumpy.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student offered me a tip: “If you see their hair coming up, and they’re going to charge you?” he said. “Find a tree.”

I was joining a day of…

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