The ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, but exactly how much is uncertain. For instance, estimates from the 2023 Global Carbon Budget ranged from 2.2 billion to 4 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Bubbles make it more likely, but even with bubbles, methane rapidly exchanges with other gases dissolved in the ocean, such that even if the bubbles reach the sea surface, they have often lost ...

We've seen more than our fair share of geoengineering schemes concocted to halt climate change in the past year, including algae-lined buildings, forests of synthetic trees, and ships that spray ...

At the site, the sea was "violently boiling with methane bubbles," Sergey Nikiforov, a journalist and spokesperson for the Tomsk Politechnical University on-board the research vessel told The ...

The sea, located in Titan’s polar region, is probably between 100 to 200 meters deep and pretty cold, about ‒183 to ‒193° Celsius. The deeper sea layers might be richer in ethane, while ...