UN Report on Warming Permafrost December 2, 2012 | United Nations About 24% of the land in the Northern Hemisphere is underlain by permafrost. As... Methane Release in a Thawing Arctic May 21, 2012 | New York Times As Arctic temperatures warm and permafrost melts, methane, a greenhouse gas, is being released and... The Permafrost Timebomb? June 13, 2013 | NASA Over hundreds of thousands of years the Arctic permafrost has accumulated an enormous store of... The Methane Hydrate Gas Boom? April 2, 2013 | NPR Methane hydrate is the world's largest natural gas resource. Japanese engineers recently became... Large Methane Hydrate Accumulation Under Antarctica September 21, 2012 | University of California Santa Cruz Researchers have found evidence of a large accumulation of methane hydrate trapped under Antarctic ice.... Interesting USGS Video about Gas Hydrates June 6, 2012 | USGS This video explains the importance of gas hydrates then demonstrates some of their properties in... Most Popular: 9/16/12 – 9/22/12 September 23, 2012 | Geology.com Popigai: The World’s Largest Diamond Deposit
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