"Marine scientists drilling into abyssal ocean floor sediments discovered thriving colonies of this new #methanogen species at depths previously thought to be biologically inactive. These extreme environments, characterized by crushing pressure and complete darkness, harbor #microbial communities that have evolved unique metabolic pathways. According to research published in #NatureGeoscience, these #DeepSea methanogens can survive in conditions that would kill most known life forms.

"The discovery challenges everything scientists thought they knew about where life can exist in Earth’s oceans. These microbes don’t just survive in the deep ocean trenches, they’re actually flourishing and producing methane at industrial scales. Their metabolic processes operate entirely differently from surface-dwelling organisms, using chemical energy sources that most life forms can’t even process."

Learn more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/earth-s-dangerous-warming-traced-to-a-hidden-culprit-says-new-data/ss-AA1VuuPp?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=0a3d1a553ba44c8893415037fea29306&ei=7#image=2

#DeepSeaLife #AgriculturalRunoff #BigAg #OceansAreLife #OceanCurrents #OceanMethane

【🎉Latest accepted article】
#SpartinaAlterniflora invasion stimulates #Methane emissions in coastal #Wetlands by increasing labile organic matter and shifting microbial communities

#Mangrove | #DissolvedOrganicMatter | #Methanogen

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf188

How #microbes extract important #metals from their environment
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-ancient-microbes-important-metals-environment.html

#Methanogens acquire and bioaccumulate #nickel during reductive dissolution of nickelian #pyrite: Rachel Spietz et al. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.00991-23

"These findings help differentiate between two competing hypotheses about the reduction in atmospheric #methane billions of years ago that was likely caused by a reduction in the #methanogen population."

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry
Scientists @MarineMicrobio isolate a #microbial #enzyme and branch it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to #formate
#methanogen #climatechange

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/09/28/capturing-co2-with-electricity-a-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry
Scientists @MarineMicrobio isolate a #microbial #enzyme and branch it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to #formate
#methanogen #climatechange

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/09/28/capturing-co2-with-electricity-a-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry

How a #microbe creates its own #sulfate reduction machinery.

#methanogen #Methanothermococcus #evolution

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-microbe-sulfate-reduction-machinery.html

The Genetics Of Temperature Adaptation: How Does Life Thrive In Extreme Conditions? https://astrobiology.com/2023/03/the-genetics-of-temperature-adaptation-how-does-life-thrive-in-extreme-conditions.html

The #methanogen core & #pangenome: conservation and variability across biology’s growth temperature extremes https://academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/article/30/1/dsac048/6862058

"#Methanogens can thrive across a range of temperature extremes, from -2.5 to 122 °C, making them ideal candidates to study temperature adaptation... Thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome."

#Methane-generating #microbe can grow on toxic #sulfite without becoming poisoned.

#methanogen #Methanothermococcus #Fsr #F420

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-methane-generating-microbe-toxic-sulfite-poisoned.html