{"id":45464,"date":"2021-04-14T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=45464"},"modified":"2021-04-14T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T08:26:09","slug":"4-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/chief-editors-choice\/4-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Bacteria Release Carbon Into the Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>A team led by University of Minnesota researchers has discovered that deep-sea bacteria dissolve carbon-containing rocks, releasing excess carbon into the ocean and atmosphere. The findings will allow scientists to better estimate the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, a main driver of global warming. The study is published in The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is part of the Nature family of publications and the official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf CO2 is being released into the ocean, it\u2019s also being released into the atmosphere, because they\u2019re constantly interchanging gases between them,\u201d explained Dalton Leprich, the first author on the paper and a Ph.D. student in the University of Minnesota\u2019s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. \u201cWhile it\u2019s not as big of an impact as what humans are doing to the environment, it is a flux of CO2 into the atmosphere that we didn\u2019t know about. These numbers should help us home in on that global carbon budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers began studying sulfur-oxidizing bacteria\u2014a group of microbes that use sulfur as an energy source\u2014in methane seeps on the ocean floor. Akin to deep-sea coral reefs, these \u201cseeps\u201d contain collections of limestone that trap large amounts of carbon. The sulfur-oxidizing microbes live on top of these rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enn.com\/articles\/67530-ocean-bacteria-release-carbon-into-the-atmosphere\">ENN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by University of Minnesota researchers has discovered that deep-sea bacteria dissolve carbon-containing rocks, releasing excess carbon into the ocean and atmosphere. The&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594],"tags":[5647,203,476,905],"class_list":["post-45464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","tag-bacteria","tag-carbon","tag-ocean","tag-research","wpcat-5594-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Barentsin_meri_pixabay.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45608,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions\/45608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}