Bacteria which eats methane has been found in trees in Australia. \ Philip Doyle
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I see that methane-eating bacteria has been found in a type of tree in Australia.
With emerging research showing that trees can also emit methane, researchers have found that these bacteria mitigated about one-third of the methane emissions from trees.
Essentially, they take in the methane and convert it to carbon dioxide.
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I’ll be keeping an eye on how the future research on this goes.
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I see that methane-eating bacteria has been found in a type of tree in Australia.
With emerging research showing that trees can also emit methane, researchers have found that these bacteria mitigated about one-third of the methane emissions from trees.
Essentially, they take in the methane and convert it to carbon dioxide.
I’ll be keeping an eye on how the future research on this goes.
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