{"id":257182,"date":"2023-08-24T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257182"},"modified":"2023-08-24T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:21:23","slug":"now-a-bacteria-that-can-eat-methane-can-it-reduce-global-warming-researchers-say-its-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/now-a-bacteria-that-can-eat-methane-can-it-reduce-global-warming-researchers-say-its-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, a bacteria that can eat methane. Can it reduce global warming? Researchers say it\u2019s possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cNow, a bacteria that can eat methane. Can it reduce global warming? Researchers say it\u2019s possible\u201d <\/b>\u00a0published in<\/span> Down To Earth on 22nd August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

A study has found that a specific bacteria named <\/span>Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense 5GB1C <\/b>could help reduce methane emissions from places like landfills and oil wells.<\/span><\/p>\n

Background:<\/b><\/h2>\n

The rapid increase of the methane in the atmosphere creates great urgency to develop and deploy technologies for methane mitigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One approach to removing methane is to use bacteria called <\/span>methanotrophs<\/b> for which methane is their carbon and energy source.<\/span><\/p>\n

Methanotrophs naturally convert methane to CO2 and biomass, a value-added product and a co-benefit of methane removal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But methanotrophs grow best when the methane concentration is around 5,000-10,000 parts per million (ppm).<\/span><\/p>\n

However, methane levels in key emission sites are around 500 ppm. So the researchers screened a range of existing methanotrophs to identify those that consume such low methane (500 ppm) at significantly higher rates.<\/span><\/p>\n

They found that <\/span>Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense 5GB1C<\/b> performed the best at 500 ppm.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is <\/b>Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense 5GB1C?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense 5GB1C is a bacterial strain that consumes methane.<\/span><\/p>\n

It can grow at low methane concentrations ranging from 200-1,000 ppm. These features make this strain a promising candidate for methane removal technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significance: <\/b>Methane is a significant contributor to global warming, It is over 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) on a 20-year timescale. It is responsible for nearly 30 percent of the total global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Hence, this bacteria, if used on a large scale, could prevent 240 million tonnes of methane from entering the atmosphere by 2050.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 It can also help reduce the global temperature rise by about 0.21-0.22 degrees Celsius by 2050 by removing a substantial amount of methane.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNow, a bacteria that can eat methane. Can it reduce global warming? Researchers say it\u2019s possible\u201d \u00a0published in Down To Earth on 22nd August 2023. What is the News? A study has found that a specific bacteria named Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense 5GB1C could help reduce methane emissions from… Continue reading Now, a bacteria that can eat methane. Can it reduce global warming? Researchers say it\u2019s possible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-257182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}