Sarah Faye Harpenslager

Warming boosts natural methane emissions as microbes fail to keep pace

Warming boosts natural methane emissions as microbes fail to keep pace Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor A new study led by Professor Mark Trimmer of Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, explains how increases in natural methane emissions will be maximized under future climate warming. Say "methane" and most people think of cows, yet nearly half of all methane is produced by microbes in the natural world, especially lakes,...