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New methane source
July 22 , 2023
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- Climate change is causing groundwater springs to release methane in the Arctic.
- The retreating glaciers expose these methane-rich springs.
- The groundwater springs found in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic, could be emitting over 2,000 tonnes of methane.
- This figure equals 10 per cent of the methane emissions from Norway’s annual oil and gas energy industry.
- Methane, a greenhouse gas, is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a 20-year timescale.
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