Researchers stated that one of the most powerful greenhouse gas emissions was found seeping from cracks on the Antarctic seabed. According to an article published in the journal Nature Communications, methane is escaping at high speed from cracks in the seabed as the region heats up at unprecedented rates.
According to the study, large deposits of methane are buried beneath the seafloor worldwide, which can escape through cracks in the seabed.
The researchers stated that the invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating from the seafloor of the Ross Sea in Antarctica, located off the continent’s northern coast, describing the mechanism as “apparently widespread” across the region rather than a “rare phenomenon”.
