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MARCH 5, 2010

A section of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane (CH 4 ) is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

There is a real risk that human-caused climate change will accelerate the release of carbon dioxide from forest and tundra ecosystems, which have been storing a lot of carbon for thousands of years. We don’t want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot. Chris Field.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Throughout the valley, Chevron has more than 15,000 active producing wells, with more than 700 new wells drilled annually, all generating massive amounts of new data to be stored in the databases. In Kern River field alone, more than 19,000 wells were drilled within its 25 square miles areal extent since discovery in 1899.

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MAY 28, 2009

Permafrost soils in boreal and Arctic ecosystems store almost twice as much carbon as is currently present in the atmosphere. Schuur (2009) The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundra. Permafrost. Vogel, Kathryn G. Crummer, Hanna Lee, James O. Sickman, T. Osterkamp, Edward A.

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