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The Arctic's warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, on average. And as permafrost

becomes, well, not so perma, microbes are warming up, feasting on organic compounds in the

thawed soil. The microbes then belch methane, a potent greenhouse gas,

meaning that the warming Arctic could become a big source of carbon pollution. But maybe it won't,

because it turns out there are also a lot of microbes that like to snack on the methane waste

their buddies emit. In fact, some 90% of the methane bubbling up through Arctic soils

is already soaked up this way. Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane-eating

microbes in soil samples from Axel-Hyberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic. The soils on the island

are not rich in carbon, meaning there's not a lot of methane waste.

So these still unnamed bacteria instead harvests the gas straight out of the air.

And as that air warms up, they're getting hungrier.

The scientists project that as temperatures rise over the next century,

the bugs could gobble up anywhere from five to 30 times the amount of methane they eat today.

The study appears in the Ismi Journal.

Most Arctic permafrost, 87%, is actually carbon-poor mineral-y stuff, like the soil on Axel-Hyberg

Island, meaning much of the Arctic could soon be sucking up methane.

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