We found methane-eating bacteria living in a common Australian tree. It could be a game changer fo

[rangerrebew]

 
We found methane-eating bacteria living in a common Australian tree. It could be a game changer for curbing greenhouse gases
April 9, 2021 7.33am EDT
 
 

Trees are the Earth’s lungs – it’s well understood they drawdown and lock up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But emerging research is showing trees can also emit methane, and it’s currently unknown just how much.

This could be a major problem, given methane is a greenhouse gas about 45 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming our planet.

However, in a world-first discovery published in Nature Communications, we found unique methane-eating communities of bacteria living within the bark of a common Australian tree species: paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). These microbial communities were abundant, thriving, and mitigated about one third of the substantial methane emissions from paperbark that would have otherwise ended up in the atmosphere.

https://theconversation.com/we-found-methane-eating-bacteria-living-in-a-common-australian-tree-it-could-be-a-game-changer-for-curbing-greenhouse-gases-158430

[GtHawk]

Methane makes up just 00017% of the atmosphere. We have morons who contrary to what they want us to believe really don't have any idea of how the Earth works, how could they when they want to do insane things like eliminate as much CO2 as possible despite we and all plant life on Earth and in the ocean depend on it. They want to blot out the sun despite the fact that all plant and animal life on Earth and most of the oceans depend on it. And now some nutjob wants to start spreading some isolated bacteria all over the world to start eating methane? What could go wrong?