Glacial microbes gobble methane

Bacteria in Greenland’s melting ice sheet may consume the potent greenhouse gas

ICY MICROBES  In melt streams under Russell Glacier (shown), a glacier at the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, researchers found bacteria that can gobble up methane as it gurgles out from under the glacier.

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Glacier-capped methane, poised to exacerbate global warming as it bubbles out from melting glaciers, may meet its end in the very ice from whence it came.