Tag: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Icy Antarctica air reveals human-made methane levels higher than previously believed

Scientists say global warming could release methane from ancient carbon reservoirs such as permafrost In 2011 a team of researchers led by Vasilii Petrenko, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, spent seven weeks in Antarctica collecting and studying 2,000-pound samples of glacial ice cores that date back nearly 12,000 years, […]