Microbiologists show that methanogenic archaea do not always need to form methane to survive. It is possible to bypass methanogenesis with the seemingly simpler and more environmentally friendly ...

Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about methanogens, unique microorganisms that transform electricity and carbon dioxide into methane. The results could pave the way for microbial ...

Methanogenesis occurs under both high and low CO2 conditions in the microcosms. However, the increase in CO2 pressure accelerates the rate of methanogenesis to more than twice than that under low ...

Stanford University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about methanogens, unique microorganisms that transform electricity and carbon dioxide into methane. The results could pave the ...

This is significant as methanogens produce 70 percent of the world's methane—a gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere, Hatzenpichler said.

Methanogens, known to science since 1933, are methane-producing bacteria, especially an archaean which reduces carbon dioxide to methane, unlike humans and other animals who eat food, ...

Object Details Author Ferry, J. G Contents Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens / David R. Boone, William B. Whitman, and Pierre Rouvière -- Microscopy / G. Dennis Sprott and Terry J. Beveridge -- ...

The dominance of anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation, including methanogenesis, in subsurface biodegradation of oil is supported by the lack of sufficiently oxygenated formation waters to oxidize ...

While carbon dioxide is typically painted as the bad boy of greenhouse gases, methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. New research in the journal Nature indicates that for ...

It’s roughly 25 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2 is. ... the methanogens, as microbes in general, they’re very good at adapting to these situations. So you ...

"They provide methanogens with electrons to metabolize carbon dioxide and produce methane." In the Spormann lab, methanogens don't have to worry about food. Electrons are continuously supplied by ...

This is significant as methanogens produce 70 percent of the world's methane—a gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere, Hatzenpichler said.