At first glance, this frozen lake looks like it's full of neatly stacked UFOs hovering beneath the ice. What you're actually seeing is methane gas released by bacteria as they decompose organic matter ...

The Arctic is warming faster than many other parts of the planet. This warming is not only melting ice and snow—it’s also affecting thousands of lakes spread across the Arctic region. These lakes are ...

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 ...