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.
Brent Christner/LSU
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