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The Japanese vessel Chikyu started drilling in waters about 1000 meters deep, some 70 to 80 kilometers off the Japanese coast in February 2012. The vessel will dig about 260 meters or more below the...
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Large areas of open ocean starved of oxygen
“The water is getting warmer, and warm water holds substantially less oxygen than cold water . . . Off southern California over the past 22 years we’ve lost about 30% of the oxygen at depths of around...
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Save the Arctic!
Flickr: Save the Arctic!On 24 Feb 2012 seven people including actor Lucy Lawless scaled the 50 meter drill tower on a drillship commissioned by Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic. They occupied the...
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Event: The Case for Emergency Geo-Engineering to save the Arctic from Collapse
The Case for Emergency Geo-Engineering to save the Arctic from CollapseAn APPCCG Event:The Case for Emergency Geo-Engineering to save the Arctic from CollapseWHEN: Tuesday, 13th March, 2012, from...
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Methane hydrates
1. Methane venting at polesImage 1. (above) shows high levels of methane over the poles. Peak levels of over 2000 ppb over Antarctica have been recorded repeatedly over the past few months, which is...
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Antarctic methane peaks at 2249 ppb
Methane levels in the atmosphere above Antarctica peaked at 2249 parts per billion on May 9, 2013.The chart below shows that very high levels of methane have been recorded over Antarctica for some time...
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Is Global Warming breaking up the Integrity of the Permafrost?
Permafrost was long thought to act as a cap preventing methane from hydrates to enter the atmosphere. For many years, University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov...
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High daily peak methane readings continue over Antarctica
Above chart shows that, over the past two months, high daily peak methane readings have been recorded over Antarctica. For comparison, the image below, by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, shows the methane levels...
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Sea of Okhotsk
On May 29 and June 2, 2013, sudden peak levels of methane in the atmosphere were registered of respectively 2241 and 2238 ppb at an altitude of 33,647.8 ft (10,255.8 mi). Such very high levels are...
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Methanetracker
Above, a screenshot from a video, at youtube.com/watch?v=3l6PtWf4i9w, earlier posted as Cruising for methane with Sam Carana at the Arctic-news blog. The video was made with methanetracker.org where...
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Earthquake M6.7 hits Sea of Okhotsk
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale hit the Sea of Okhotsk on October 1, 2013.[click on image to enlarge ]The submarine earthquake occurred at a depth of 359.3 miles (578.24 km)....
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Noctilucent clouds: further confirmation of large methane releases
Back in September 2013, extremely high methane readings were recorded over the heights of Antarctica, as illustrated by the image below.These high methane readings over Antarctica have not been...
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Joint New Zealand - German 3D survey reveals massive seabed gas hydrate and...
A joint New Zealand-German research team has discovered a huge network of frozen methane and methane gas in sediments and in the ocean near New Zealand’s east coast.The 16-strong team is using...
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