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Methane emissions from natural gas reservoirs have long been largely overlooked. The discovery of abundant geological gas seeps in areas of cryosphere degradation highlights the relevance of these emissions to the greenhouse gas budget.

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Figure 1: Earth degassing versus modern natural methane sources9.

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  1. Giuseppe Etiope is at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, 00143 Rome, Italy; and the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, RO-400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania,

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Etiope, G. Methane uncovered. Nature Geosci 5, 373–374 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1483

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