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Scientists Have Figured Out Why Mysterious Craters Are Popping Up Around Siberia
That's the puzzle scientists have been wrestling with since 2014, when the first 100-foot-wide crater burst through soil that ...
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Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change
Methane hydrates occur in five geographic settings (or sectors) that must be individually evaluated to determine their susceptibility to warming climate (Figure 1). The percentages assigned to ...
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Methane Hydrate: The World's First Offshore Production Test
Resource-starved Japan is looking to methane hydrate as a new energy form. Large reserves of methane hydrate have been confirmed in the seas around Japan, but methane hydrate does not flow under its ...
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Massive exploding methane craters are tearing Siberia apart and scientists finally know why
In the remote Siberian tundra, the ground itself has begun to explode. Since 2014, more than 20 mysterious craters, each ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan's ice shell is warm and ...
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NETL Methane Hydrate Fellowships
Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. The NETL Methane Hydrates Program is a Research Fellowship Program designed to support the ...
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The Great Gas Escape (VIDEO)
This is a computer simulation of methane, also known as natural gas, escaping from a methane hydrate. Many of these methane hydrate subunits combine to form a chunk of ice that burns, and this ...