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Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Chemistry World August 31, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Ocean methane paradox' solved? Numerical simulation of methane production by methanogenic microorganisms suggests that up to 400 billion tonnes of methane could be sitting under the ice. If the ice sheet collapses due to a warming climate, this could release the gas, which in turn would increase warming, the researchers say.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Revisiting the Lost City This discovery of this hydrothermal vent community has a wide range of implications, from Earth's methane cycles to the search for early life forms -- and life elsewhere in the universe.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Chemistry World November 1, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Pilot Seeks to Thaw Methane Hydrate Promise The question of whether natural gas locked in ice, known as methane hydrates, can help the world keep pace with its growing demand for energy will soon become clearer.
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman	Taking the Fossil Out of Fuels New research is expanding the range of the formation of fossil fuels.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all.
Chemistry World April 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Scientists Clash Over Methane Mystery The startling claim that trees could be responsible for putting millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year was published last year in the prestigious journal Nature. But that has now been rubbished by rival researchers who report that plants emit virtually no methane whatsoever.
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Early Life Lines Make Waves Life on Earth just got a little older. New evidence from an ancient rock formation in Australia is bolstering one side of a long-standing debate: that the earliest life on Earth helped shape thousands of finely-layered sediment mounds within the rock.
Geotimes October 2005 Lisa M. Pinsker	Feuding Over the Origins of Fossil Fuels The so-called inorganic or abiogenic oil idea has been getting more attention lately. With oil more expensive than ever and many people citing future shortages, understanding the origins of petroleum is increasingly relevant.
Popular Mechanics November 2009	Methane Maps Step One for Energy Prospectors A recent discovery indicates there may be more of the gas being released and from deeper areas of the Arctic seabed than expected.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes.
Geotimes March 2003	Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
Geotimes November 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Methane Burps Below the Ice Methane bubbles frozen in the ice of a Siberian lake offer a visible target to scientists seeking to estimate how much methane the lakes emit, now estimated at as much as five times higher than previously thought.
Chemistry World July 10, 2009 James Urquhart	Wider menu for methane-eating microbes Marine dwelling microbes that consume methane for energy and produce carbon dioxide may do so by using a larger array of oxidants than previously thought. This may offer insight into the possibility of extraterrestrial life on methane rich bodies like Mars.
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark	Iron found in ancient rock is recycled from bacteria Isotopic analysis suggests that some of the iron within rock formations was processed by bacteria 2.5 billion years ago
Chemistry World November 20, 2012 James Mitchell Crow	'Molecular trapdoor' opens only for CO 2 A family of nanoporous materials well known for their gas separation properties can sort molecules with much more sophistication than previously thought.
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate	Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor.
Geotimes April 2004	Early volcanic living? Microbes thrive in unexpected places, including seafloor hotspots, where energy and nutrients from hydrothermal vents or volcanic activity make life easy.
Chemistry World April 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley	'Nickel famine' caused ancient oxygen rise A crucial increase in atmospheric oxygen that occurred around 2.4 billion years ago could have been triggered by a shortage of nickel in the oceans, according to Canadian researchers.
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Super sponges soak up gas Researchers in the US have shown that a recently discovered class of compound based on light elements can store gas at least as efficiently as the most promising metal organic framework candidates.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Virginia Hughes	Dianne Newman: Connecting Cultures Medical and environmental microbiologists have separate scientific cultures, but the same he same methods geochemists apply to sediments and ice cores can be tweaked for cells, tissues, and organs.
Chemistry World May 20, 2014 Rachel Purser-Lowman	Microbes reduce coal's carbon footprint Scientists in Canada are investigating the microbial conversion of coal into methane, to find a way that coal, especially low grade unmineable coal, can be used in order to minimize its environmental impact.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Rivers Without evidence for methane-producing life, the leading hypothesis remains that Titan's visible volcanoes tap into an underground methane reservoir and bring it to the surface.
Geotimes February 2007 Sally Adee	Escape From Snowball Earth Early Earth didn't do things half-way: It may or may not have ever been a solidly frozen "snowball" in the deep geological past, but it was never a half-frozen ball of slush, according to a new study.
Popular Mechanics May 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Ice Sculptures for Science: Chain Saws, Pickaxes, Methane Hydrates and Climate Change One of the greatest unknowns regarding the future pace of climate change involves a source of greenhouse gases we can't even see, let alone control.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009	The Greenhouse Gas Gap Companies and countries report their emissions but the disclosed amounts often don't add up to what's actually in the air.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Laura Howes	Sponges to mop up marine methane It may seem like the story from a children's cartoon, but Chinese scientist's claim that their sponge could suck up methane from the oceans, helping fight climate change and providing a new energy source at the same time.
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt	Acid Rain Curbs Global Warming In an odd twist that highlights the complex nature of interactions between Earth's systems, researchers have found that acid rain is significantly suppressing the global emission of methane from wetlands.
Reactive Reports October 2007 David Bradley	The Venusian Greenhouse A rare form of carbon dioxide in which one oxygen atom contains ten neutrons instead of the usual eight could be to blame for the searing greenhouse effect on the planet Venus.
Geotimes March 2006	Geomedia Geoscience Arts: Antarctica Through the Eyes of Writers and Artists... Television: Brewing Intelligent Design... Books: Trapped in the Ice... Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate...
Wired May 22, 2007 Amy Cortese	Belching Bovines Are Bad for the Environment: How to Clear the Air Thanks to a ruminant stomach and a diet heavy in grass, a single heifer belches up to 300 pounds of methane a day
Smithsonian December 2006 Cate Lineberry	Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, explains how the rare crystals form.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Geotimes October 2006	Geocatastrophes Catastrophe and Opportunity in an Ancient Hot-House Climate... When the Mediterranean Dried Up: Forensics of a Geocatastrophe... The Great Death: Redefining a Mass Extinction...
Chemistry World October 8, 2009 Hayley Birch	Molecular Snapshots Show Hydrate Growth US researchers have gleaned new insights into the formation of methane-rich hydrates found in the deep ocean.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	New Explanation Offered for Delphi Trances Geochemists recently sampled the carbonate rock around the spring near the Grecian temple at Delphi to determine the types of gas that might be present at the site. Gases are thought to be responsible for the oracle at Delphi's prophetic powers.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US methane emissions reduction effort generates sparks The White House has set a new goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% by 2025.
Chemistry World April 16, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Isolated microbes survive for millions of years Researchers in the US and the UK have found microbes in the Antarctic that appear to have survived in isolation, without sunlight or new supplies of nutrients, for more than a million years.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
Geotimes October 2006 Megan Sever	Giving Carbon a Deep-Sea Burial While many people are calling for an immediate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, others are looking toward ways to dispose of the excess carbon dioxide. Burying the gas in sediments below the ocean could be a potential solution
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Suzy Hansen	We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system...
Geotimes March 2003 S. Julio Friedmann	Storing Carbon in Earth Carbon sequestration is capturing carbon dioxide, either from the atmosphere or emission streams, and storing it in reservoirs, such as plants or soils. Carbon dioxide could be converted to solid chemicals or injected into the deep ocean. Though there are risks, the potential pay-off is enormous.