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Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Scientists discover vast swathes of Arctic are BULGING as 7,000 massive methane gas bubbles threaten to explode

Unknown   March 22, 2017

The bulges are caused when permafrost beneath the soil melts due to "abnormally warm" weather - allowing methane gas to escape and head to the surface





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ByJoshua Taylor
  • 18:57, 21 MAR 2017
  • Updated19:07, 21 MAR 2017
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A huge crater that opened up in the Bovanenkovo gas field in 2014 (Photo: East2West, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, The Siberian Times)




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Huge swathes of the Arctic are bulging as 7,000 methane gas bubbles threaten to explode, according to reports.
Large bumps are appearing in the ground in Russia's Yamal and Gydan peninsulas as underground permafrost melts, sending gas into the air.
The phenomenon is down to "abnormally warm" weather, according to Russian website TASS .
Photos show huge craters in the soil where the ground has swelled and burst.
Scientists estimate there are another 7,000 of these methane gas bubbles trapped underground.
The craters are caused by methane escaping from thawing permafrost (Photo: East2West, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, The Siberian Times)
An aerial shot of the Bovanenkovo crater (Photo: East2West, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, The Siberian Times)
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Many of the craters have been spotted by satellites flying over the remote Arctic wilderness, while scientists have launched expeditions to examine others.
Experts are trying to map the locations of the methane bubbles to limit their impact on energy supplies and transport routes.
Scientists inspect the early stage of a gas bubble in 2016 (Photo: East2West, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, The Siberian Times)
There are believed to be 7,000 gas bubbles beneath the surface (Photo: East2West, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, The Siberian Times)
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The phenomenon became widespread in the summer of 2016 - a year when there was abnormally warm weather in northern Russia.
Alexey Titovsky, director of the Yamal department for science and innovation, told The Siberian Times : "At first such a bump is a bubble. With time the bubble explodes, releasing gas. This is how gigantic funnels form.
"Scientists are working on detecting and structuring signs of potential threat, like the maximum height of a bump and pressure that the earth can withstand."

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