Photo of the Day
an ecologist igniting a methane bubble
March 16, 2013
Methane Ignition, Alaska
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Methane is bubbling from lakes all over the warming Arctic. Here ecologist Katey Walter Anthony (at right) ignites a large bubble that was trapped by the fall freeze—then freed by an ice pick.
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