Submarine gas hydrates in temperate and tropical oceans are probably not large sources of atmospheric methane emissions at present, suggests a study of methane sources along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the USA.
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Nisbet, E.G. Methane’s unknowns better known. Nat. Geosci. 15, 861–862 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01049-3
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