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The Bacteria That Can Mitigate Fracked Natural Gas Before It Pollutes the Atmosphere
2014-05-01 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: By the ton, methane from fracking has about 20 times the global warming effect of carbon dioxide. Researchers at a college in the United Kingdom believe they have found a tiny way to mitigate the greenhouse gas before it spreads into the atmosphere. Methylocella silvestris, a single bacterial strain found in soil and other environments around the world, is capable of growing on methane and propane, according to research by a team at the University of East Anglia that was published in Nature, a...
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