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Meltwater flushed methane from Greenland seabed during ice-sheet retreat, researchers reveal
- May 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf became rapidly destabilized by meltwater, releasing large stores of methane during ice-sheet retreat across the continental shelf.
Originally published at Phys.org