The study, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience and led by the University of Cambridge and the University Centre in Svalbard in Norway, raises serious concerns about hidden sources of emissions and suggests that these emissions should be included in climate change calculations.
Co-author Dr. Hal Bradbury, a professor in UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, says that as the planet warms, disappearing glaciers are causing bubbling groundwater springs to form, releasing trapped reservoirs of subsurface methane. (Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver)