The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet | They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

Birch@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

If a headline ends with a question, the answer is generally “no”.

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 months ago

Fellow fan of Betteridge’s law I see

Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

Don’t methanotrophs convert methane into CO2?

Also they mention a bacteria that can eat CO2. That sounds more important. I wonder if it’s only a cyanobacteria.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

Probably just another example of photosynthesis, yeah.