{"id":327574,"date":"2017-06-07T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170607094225.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:42:25","slug":"newly-discovered-methane-consumers-in-lakes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=327574","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered methane consumers in lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When decaying organic matter sinks to the bottom of a lake or ocean, methane is produced as the biomass is broken down. Some of the methane is released from the surface into the atmosphere, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas, while some is broken down by microorganisms in the water column. In a new study, an international research group reports that, as well as the \u201cclassical\u201d methane consumers, filamentous bacteria of the genus Crenothrix \u2013 previously little studied in the environment \u2013 are also involved in the methane removal process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When decaying organic matter sinks to the bottom of a lake or ocean, methane is produced as the biomass is broken down. Some of the methane is released from the surface into the atmosphere, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas, while some is broken down by microorganisms in the water column. In a new study, an international research group reports that, as well as the &ldquo;classical&rdquo; methane consumers, filamentous bacteria of the genus Crenothrix &ndash; previously little studied in the environment &ndash; are also involved in the methane removal process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327575,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574\/revisions\/327575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}