Sentences with phrase «microbes under the seafloor»

Methane - producing microbes under the seafloor may have set the stage for catastrophe, yet again.

Not only is there a much higher diversity of microbes under the seafloor than originally thought, large and active populations exist much deeper in the sediments than was believed, the team reports 21 July in Nature.

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«Maybe microbes are eating it, or maybe it's accumulating in reservoirs under the seafloor.

In the video, Ash describes her work to understand the balance between the massive amount of methane, a greenhouse gas, under the Antarctic seafloor and the microbes that consume it and keep it from escaping to the atmosphere, as well as the microbes» susceptibility to climate change.