Methane-producing microbe blooms in permafrost thaw
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 07:50
in Earth & Climate
In time with the climate warming up, parts of the permafrost in northern Sweden and elsewhere in the world are thawing. An international study published in Nature Communications describes a newly discovered microbe found in the thawing permafrost of a mire in northernmost Sweden. There it flourishes and produces large amounts of greenhouse gases.