New York Times: Four percent of the methane found in the earth`s atmosphere comes from oceans. But for decades, researchers have been flummoxed by how that could be. The only known biological source of methane is a class of microorganisms that produce methane when they are alive but die when exposed to oxygen. How could these microorganisms, called methanogens, be so plentiful in the oxygen-rich ocean? A new paper in the journal Science proposes a plausible explanation for this seemingly impossible reality, which...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/solving-the-ocean-methane-paradox/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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