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Locked greenhouse gas in Arctic sea may be 'climate canary'

Undersea methane hydrate deposit is the shallowest yet found.

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  1. Paull, C. K. et al. Active seafloor gas vents on the Shelf and upper Slope in Canadian Beaufort Sea. Abstract presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 3–7 December, San Francisco, California (2012).

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Corbyn, Z. Locked greenhouse gas in Arctic sea may be 'climate canary'. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.11988

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