Serious threat to environment as the Arctic’s sleeping giants release methane
Kathmandu. The Guardian reported that the scientists have detected the leak of underground methane collection called “Sleeping Giants of the carbon cycle” from the large continental slope in the eastern Siberia in the Arctic region.
The 60-member team of the Russian research ship Akademik Keldysh stated that they have detected a potentially destabilized slope of frozen methane, 350 meters below the Laptev sea in Russia, which is 1 of the 6 monitoring points.
They observed clouds of bubbles that were released from the sediment, and found that the amount of methane on the surface is four to eight times higher than normal, and that is spreading in the atmosphere.
The release of the large quantities of potent greenhouse gases like methane would possibly cause the speeding of global warming. For the past 20 years, methane gas has been raising the temperature by 80 times more than carbon dioxide gas.
They have estimated methane concentrations of up to 1,600 nanomole per litre in the site, which is 400 times higher than the normal. However, the exact amount of methane emissions will be known only after the scientists return back from the sea, analyze the data and publish their final report.
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