European scientists were alarmed in 2008 when they discovered streams of methane bubbles erupting from the seafloor in Norway's high Arctic. This... Arctic Methane Bubbles Not As Foreboding As Once ...

The findings are important because methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Arctic lakes are already major natural methane sources globally, but the processes ...

Far north in the Fram Strait, scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working with colleagues including the University of Southampton in the U.K., have identified the deepest known gas ...

Rapidly receding glaciers are leaving new tracts of Arctic land uncovered and causing a potent greenhouse gas to bubble out of the ground, according to scientists studying the region. It’s not clear ...