• Question: You know the way there is bubbles underneath the ice in the Artic and there made from gas and when the ice melts the gas gets free. What cause the bubbles to get under the ice?I believe it is called permafrost.

    Asked by star45ham to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, John, Faye, Armin on 15 Nov 2019.
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      Maria McNamara answered on 15 Nov 2019:


      Well there are deposits of frozen methane trapped in seafloor sediments around the world. The methane is usually produced by bacteria degrading organic matter in the sediment. If climate warms too much these ‘methane clathrates’ could be released into the atmosphere, resulting in an acceleration of global warming.

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