Deep Diving Scientists Discover Bubbling CO2 Hotspot

Bayani Cardenas, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, diving in the champagne-like environment of “Soda Springs“ -- a high CO2 hotspot off the coastline of the Calumpan Peninsula in the Philippines. Cardenas and his collaborators measured CO2 concentrations as high as 95,000 ppm, which is more than 200 times the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and potentially the highest ever recorded in nature. The scientists traced the CO2 back to a vent of volcanic gasses