Decades-old gas explosion is still leaking methane into groundwater, researchers find

Humans have a really strange habit of not believing that what they do can have a longterm effect on the Earth. You can find examples of this all over the place -- most notably with climate change deniers who seem to think that, since a human is so small and the Earth is so large, billions of us pouring chemicals into the atmosphere couldn't possibly have any impact -- but a new report out of the Netherlands offers a great example on a smaller scale. Researchers have discovered that a drilling op...