Discovered Russian methane fields of a fantastic scale

Dr Semiletov´s team released his findings for the first
time last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting
in San Francisco

Russian research team astonished after finding 'fountains' of methane bubbling to surface.

According to The Independent there are hundreds of millions of tonnes of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost, which extends from the mainland into the seabed of the relatively shallow sea of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
Igor Semiletov, of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed.

Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of metres in diameter. This is the first time that we've found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It's amazing.

I was most impressed by the sheer scale and high density of the plumes. Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a wider area there should be thousands of them

Some plumes were a kilometre or more wide, saying The Russian research team, and the emissions went directly into the atmosphere – the concentration was a hundred times higher than normal.
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