Remove Gas Remove International Remove Store Remove Tundra
article thumbnail

Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

Green Car Congress

Per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests, according to a paper this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper, “Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,” is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses.

Carbon 199
article thumbnail

Study Finds East Siberian Arctic Shelf Showing Instability and Widespread Venting of the GHG Methane; Releases May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated

Green Car Congress

seismic image showing gas charged sediments and gas release from the bottom. Methane is a greenhouse gas more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. When the organic material (which contains carbon) stored in permafrost thaws, it begins to decompose and, under anaerobic conditions, gradually releases methane.

Tundra 223
article thumbnail

Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

Green Car Congress

The showcase for Chevron’s efforts—and its international center for heavy oil technology—is the 110-year-old Kern River field in the San Joaquin Valley in California. for the first quarter of 2011, according to data from the California Department of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). in 1988 to just above 2.3

Chevron 244