NewsletterFWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute/ Flickr Underwater permafrost is a big, gassy wild card for the climate You’ve probably heard of permafrost, the frozen carbon-rich land. But it’s also thawing under the sea, burping up planet-warming gases.
Newsletter Chasing the methane dragon that lurks in the deep sea We went into the depths of the ocean with a scientist seeking to understand how frozen gas deposits might respond in a rapidly warming world.
Newsletter Why ‘flammable ice’ could be the future of energy Last year, Japan succeeded in extracting an untapped fuel from its ocean floor – methane hydrate, or flammable ice.
Newsletter www.dw.com Fire and ice: The untapped fossil fuel that could save or ruin our climate Methane hydrate buried below permafrost and the ocean floor could meet the world’s energy needs for 100 years – but would extracting it be catastrophic for the climate?
