Prajna Lindgren, left, with the Geophysical Institute, and Melanie Engram with the Water and Environmental Research Center, demonstrate the release of methane from frozen ponds throughout the far north. UAF researchers are studying how methane released by a warming Arctic is a powerful force in global climate change.

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