Scientists Hack Microbes to Identify Environmental Sources of Methane

CleanTechnica
By Press ReleaseAug 18, 2025, 11:26 pm102 pts
UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas. By Robert Sanders Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly potent greenhouse gas that…

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