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Warming ocean temperatures a third of a mile below the surface, in a dark ocean in areas with little marine life, might attract scant attention. But this is precisely the depth where frozen pockets of methane 'ice' transition from a dormant solid to a powerful greenhouse gas. New research suggests that subsurface warming could be causing more methane gas to bubble up off the Washington and Oregon coast. [Source: University of Washington]
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