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Methane Is Discovered Seeping From Seafloor Off East Coast, Scientists Say

The methane is emanating from at least 570 locations, called seeps, from near Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Georges Bank southeast of Nantucket, Mass. While the seepage is widespread, the researchers estimated that the amount of gas was tiny compared with the amount released from all sources each year. Read more here  11:15