News From the Field Study Suggests Large Methane Reservoirs Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet
August 29, 2012
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a report in the August 30 issue of Nature by an international team of scientists. The new study demonstrates that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted to methane by micro-organisms living under oxygen-deprived conditions.
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Source University of California, Santa Cruz
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