However, the team's research has unveiled new discoveries about New York's downward trajectory, and some of it isn't natural. Some of it has ties to human activity. "We’ve produced such a detailed map of vertical land motion in the New York City area that there are features popping ou...
Relatively subtle changes in the system geochemistry or environmental parameters could shift methanogenesis into a thermodynamically spontaneous space. In other words, upticks in carbon dioxide and hydrogen concentrations or acidity, or sufficient drawdowns in reaction products, could cause these reactions ...