You have to try to imagine the face of the Earth at his feet like bubbles?
The plains of the Northern tundra of Siberia became increasingly bizarre during the past few years-scientists have discovered the giant pits as well as a giant chasm that locals referred to it as "the gateway to the underworld". But now a rare phenomenon has appeared: the ground becomes the incredible scale of human feet. This phenomenon occurs on the island Belyy in Siberia.
Siberian newspaper Times has just posted a video showing a researcher walked on the ground not very normal – until it began "swaying" a strange way, the jelly-like so
According to the Siberian Times, 15 such cases have been discovered on the island so far, average diameter of each such area is about 1 meter.
Two environmental researcher Alexander Sokolov and Dorothee Ehrich first discovered this phenomenon in the last year. They worked on the island in the Kara Sea in many years-it is common place to track climate change thanks to the large number of polar bears are living here. They found the phenomenon of convex ground up and stretch like this completely accidentally, and they were surprised to find them there again this year.
In their latest adventure, they were weeds as well as digging soil from one area and found the air escape, shows that it contains more methane gas than about 200 times, while the amount of carbon dioxide are also more than 20 times the normal air
So what causes this phenomenon? The scientists will study the attitude in the future, but a hypothesis has been put out, it's the recent heatwave in Europe permanent thaw of the tundra methane gas, just below the surface.
"Capable of 10 days of abnormal increase of heat is the main cause of the eternal ice melts with more speed and doing large amounts of gas from escaping," Sokolov told Siberia Times.
"Geologists think may be leaking gas from the underground but that really unlikely." Sokolov also share.
Although research has yet to prove the theory, but that hypothesis is currently the most likely-methane leakage by melting permafrost. The theory on the aforementioned didactic reasons also is said to cause to appear strange and unexplained pits the craters appear in Siberia in 2014:
It is more worrying is that all of this methane leak will actually make global warming becomes more severe. One study has estimated that by 2100, emissions of carbon leakage as permafrost melting will reach 205 billion tons if climate change continues to take place, "Sarah Emerson shared with the motherboard.
The phenomenon of bubble Belyy island may be a sign of forecasts, and the Earth has experienced 14 consecutive months of record heat, it is becoming more frightening than ever.
"this is really a problem it's very serious, "Sokolov said." In the future, we need more research attention on this phenomenon. "
the team will now continue to study the tundra until August 15 to take get more insight into what is happening, and geologists will also monitor the area more closely.
let us hope that the Siberian tundra will at the "bubble", since until bubbles "methane" erupted worldwide, it will really will become catastrophic.
Reference: sciencealert.com
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