Climate Change and Methane Hydrates

At the bottom of the polar oceans, icy formations called methane hydrates keep more than a billion tons of methane locked within molecular cages made of water ice. Scientists studied carbon isotopes in fossilized shells of microscopic 4-aminifera that lived during a previous global warming event 125,000 years ago to understand how destabilization may have happened before and whether it can happen again. Join us as we explore the stories behind the science.