High Methane Levels over Arctic Ocean continue in 2014

The high methane levels over the Arctic Ocean,  the biggest story of 2013 , continue in 2014, as illustrated by the image below. As above im...

Locating sources of the world's highest methane levels

Above image shows IASI methane readings end October 2013 on the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, high methane levels are very prominent over th...

Methane over Arctic Ocean is increasing

[ click on image to enlarge ] Above image shows the Northern Hemisphere on October 26 - 27, 2013, a period of just over one day. Methane rea...

Methane presence over Arctic Ocean continues

The image on the right, created with IPCC data, shows that methane levels have risen even stronger than levels of other greenhouse gases. Me...

High Methane Readings continue over Depth of Arctic Ocean

The image below contains 12 frames, with methane readings recorded over 12 days in the first half of October 2013. [ click on image to enlar...

Methane reaches 2571 ppb

Methane as recorded by IASI* reached levels of up to 2571 parts per billion (ppb) on September 11, 2013. The image below shows the peak leve...

High methane readings over Kara Sea

Arctic sea ice extent 2013 (brown line on NSIDC -image below) is more and more following the same path it did last year (dashed line), when ...

Is the permafrost's integrity breaking down?

The chart below shows very high methane levels over Antarctica in April and May 2013. High levels of methane over Antarctica were recorded b...

Record Methane in Arctic early March 2013

The image below, produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, shows methane levels for the first ten days of March 2013. Methane levels for this period ...

Overview of IASI methane levels

Dr. Leonid Yurganov kindly shared an overview of his analysis of IASI methane levels over the years. The overview shows a marked difference ...

Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013

Below a combination of images produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, showing methane levels January 1-10, 2013 (below left), January 11-20, 2013 (...

High methane levels persist in January 2013

Below a combination of images produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, comparing methane levels between January 1-10, 2012 (below left), and January...