Ice sheets matter for the global carbon cycle

JL Wadham, JR Hawkings, L Tarasov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas
content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice …

Marine cold seeps: background and recent advances

E Suess - Hydrocarbons, oils and lipids: Diversity, origin …, 2020 - Springer
Marine cold seeps are windows into different depth levels of the submerged geosphere.
Subduction zones and organic-rich passive margins host most of the world's cold seeps. The …

Massive marine methane emissions from near-shore shallow coastal areas

AV Borges, W Champenois, N Gypens, B Delille… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to climate warming. The
open ocean is a minor source of methane to the atmosphere. We report intense methane …

Iron and sulfate reduction structure microbial communities in (sub-) Antarctic sediments

LC Wunder, DA Aromokeye, X Yin… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Permanently cold marine sediments are heavily influenced by increased input of iron as a
result of accelerated glacial melt, weathering, and erosion. The impact of such …

Riddles in the cold: Antarctic endemism and microbial succession impact methane cycling in the Southern Ocean

AR Thurber, S Seabrook… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antarctica is estimated to contain as much as a quarter of earth's marine methane, however
we have not discovered an active Antarctic methane seep limiting our understanding of the …

Monitoring and research on environmental impacts related to marine natural gas hydrates: Review and future perspective

L Liu, BJ Ryu, Z Sun, N Wu, H Cao, W Geng… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2019 - Elsevier
In response to the accelerating processes of marine natural gas hydrate exploration and gas
production from hydrate-bearing sediments, their potential impacts on the environment have …

Fluxes and fate of dissolved methane released at the seafloor at the landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone offshore western Svalbard

CA Graves, L Steinle, G Rehder… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread seepage of methane from seafloor sediments offshore Svalbard close to the
landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) may, in part, be driven by hydrate …

Climate engineering by mimicking natural dust climate control: the iron salt aerosol method

FD Oeste, R de Richter, T Ming… - Earth System …, 2017 - esd.copernicus.org
Power stations, ships and air traffic are among the most potent greenhouse gas emitters and
are primarily responsible for global warming. Iron salt aerosols (ISAs), composed partly of …

Discovery and quantification of a widespread methane ebullition event in a coastal inlet (Baltic Sea) using a novel sonar strategy

A Lohrberg, O Schmale, I Ostrovsky, H Niemann… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
How much of the greenhouse gas methane is transported from the seafloor to the
atmosphere is unclear. Here, we present data describing an extensive ebullition event that …

Increased petrogenic and biospheric organic carbon burial in sub‐Antarctic fjord sediments in response to recent glacier retreat

S Berg, S Jivcov, S Kusch, G Kuhn… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fjords are recognized as hotspots of organic carbon (OC) burial in the coastal ocean. In
fjords with glaciated catchments, glacier discharge carries large amounts of suspended …