Rock-dwelling microbes remove methane from deep sea

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 10:00 in Earth & Climate

Methane-breathing microbes that inhabit rocky mounds on the seafloor could be preventing large volumes of the potent greenhouse gas from entering the oceans and reaching the atmosphere, according to a new study by Caltech researchers.

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