image: This is dissolved CH4 in surface water. This image relates to an article that appeared in the March 5, 2010 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. N. Shakhova of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, and colleagues, was titled, "Extensive Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf." view more
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