Frozen Air Bubbles


Znalezione obrazy dla zapytania bubbles abraham lake.In the Abraham Lake, which is located in Canada, you can see wonderful ice bubbles. Normally, this lake looks ordinarily. However, in winter frozen water creates incredible forms. That phenomenon makes the lake popular so it's often visted by tourists and photographers. This bubbles are actually frozen pockets of methane. Methane is collorless and highly flammable gas, often used as a fuel. This greenhouse gas is produced when bacteria decomposes organic matter in the water. This organic matter includes plants, leaves, trees and animals.

Znaleziony obrazWhen spring comes and ice cracks, methan from bubbles  escapes and vanishes into the atmosphere. This doesn’t just happen in Abraham Lake. This phenomenon occurs in millions of water bodies around the Arctic region. According to the results of work conducted by University of Alaska Fairbanks biogeochemist Natalia Shakhova and her colleagues, around eight million tons of methane in a year is emitted into the air from the Arctic Ocean’s East Siberian Sea. The result is increased of global warming.



Links:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/lake-abrahams-frozen-bubbles-are-stunning-and-silent-danger-180949520/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/14/abraham-lake-in-winter_n_4442292.html
http://scribol.com/environment/lakes-and-rivers/the-explosive-potential-of-methane-frozen-beneath-abraham-lake/

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  1. englishdiary6 listopada 2017 12:28

    At least people do not need to feel responsible for this methane emission because it is beyond our control.
    Does it have to be the Arctic? Why? Don't we have such phenomena in our lakes? We certainly have plants and animals in them.

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  2. Edgar12 listopada 2017 09:30

    Eight million tons of methane per year is very much. If this goes on, global warming can lead to too quick a rise in the level of ocean waters.

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  3. Young travelholic12 listopada 2017 14:52

    It's scary, how much impact on our atmosphere has something so beautiful. From the other point I would love to go and see it myself! The things you write about are really interesting, your blog and pictures look incredible, you have nice way of writing and use a lot of sources. I admire your work and I think I will follow your next posts, so keep it like that!

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