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Methane Is Discovered Seeping From Seafloor Off East Coast, Scientists Say
2014-08-24 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Scientists have discovered methane gas bubbling from the seafloor in an unexpected place: off the East Coast of the United States where the continental shelf meets the deeper Atlantic Ocean. The methane is emanating from at least 570 locations, called seeps, from near Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Georges Bank southeast of Nantucket, Mass. While the seepage is widespread, the researchers estimated that the amount of gas was tiny compared with the amount released from all sources each year. In a paper...
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