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Nature Geoscience 1, 419–420 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo242

Oceanography: Making methane

Ellery D. Ingall

Without greenhouse gases such as methane the Earth would be a frozen wasteland. But in the context of global climate change, the rising atmospheric methane concentrations observed in recent decades have become a cause for concern.