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That’s pretty much the message of new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Large deposits of methane hydrates, i.e. methane ice, occur naturally in the seafloor…
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An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new report from Lambert et al. reports…
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