Resumen de Microbes play villainous role in Arctic warming
Mette Svenning from the University of Tromso in Norway, and her team found that microbe communities potentially produce more greenhouse gases than people thought. They knew that higher temperatures speed up the rates at which microbes in the Arctic soil release methane--a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But the team found it took just a month for entire communities to adapt to rising temperatures and release more methane. The microbes were surprisingly effective at low temperatures.
