UNI researchers find methane theory may be barking up the wrong tree

Monday April 12, 2021

Scientists at Southern Cross University have found a unique bacteria living in the bark of an Australian tree that eats methane, a potent greenhouse gas that causes climate change.

The scientists have discovered the paperbark eats methane

In research published in Nature Communications, the scientists said emerging research showed trees emit methane and that the Amazon basin was the world’s largest emitter of the gas.

Author Luke Jeffrey, a postdoctoral research fellow at Southern Cross wrote in The Conversation that this could be a major problem, given methane…

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