Mysterious craters have emerged in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula over the past decade, perplexing scientists. These craters, ...

They believe these eruptions result from methane hydrates trapped within the frozen soil. “We’re talking about a very niche geological space,” said Ana Morgado, a chemical engineer at the ...

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 ...

T. Nietch. 2016. Estimates of reservoir methane emissions based on a spatially balanced probabilistic-survey. Limnol. Oceanogr. doi: 10.1002/lno.10284 Berndt, C., and others. 2014. Temporal ...

Frozen methane hydrates are trapped inside subsea permafrost and mixed with sediments across the deep ocean floor. Warming waters and rising temperatures destabilize the hydrates and release the ...