Massive Methane Reservoirs Being Unleashed By Global Warming

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Climate change is a decidedly complex process, with many processes involved directly affecting others, often enhancing each other. For example, the warming of the oceans drives the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from its frozen, submerged prisons. And now, by following bubbles of released gas, new research from the University of Washington has managed to directly track this phenomenon.