These aren't your average lakes. They're called thermokarst lakes and they're filled with highly flammable methane gas. During the summer the gas bubbles to the surface and enters the atmosphere.

Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the middle of a large crater 80 miles south of Norway's Bear Island. The volcano ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. S1, Special Issue: Methane Emissions from Oceans, Wetlands, and Freshwater Habitats: New Perspectives and Feedbacks on Climate (2016), pp. S101-S118 (18 pages) ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Many lakes in northern Alaska are emitting methane — the product of decomposing organic matter left over from the ice age. Video courtesy of NASA. Follow TI ...

Police are warning anglers to take heed after a group ice fishing in Vermont was injured by a cloud of burning methane gas.

To understand the significance of life in underwater sinkholes, let's explore the sinkholes themselves. How were they formed? Lake Huron ... or the creation of methane gas by sediment Archaea.

Deep in the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Norway, the Borealis Mud Volcano has been spewing methane for centuries and supporting a flourishing community of seafloor creatures. Researchers have ...

The Voice of the Ocean Foundation deployed an underwater robot, known as a glider, just outside the exclusion zone around the leaks. This instrument allowed the researchers to measure methane ...

A new study suggests that the liquid methane lakes that dot Titan's surface may have formed when pockets of warming nitrogen exploded below the moon's surface. This idea would solve a mystery that ...

Further, the islands appear to be physical honeycomb-shaped snow, which forms in the methane lakes that litter the moon’s surface. A space kayaker paddling in the oceans of Saturn’s moon Titan ...

Rwanda has signed a $400 million deal to produce bottled gas from Lake Kivu, which emits such dense clouds of methane it is known as one of Africa’s “Killer Lakes”. The project by Gasmeth ...