Tue. 04/13 - A Methane-Eating Bacteria Inside of Trees

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Researchers have found a methane-eating bacteria living in a common species of Australian tree. The UK is considering a legal “right to disconnect” for remote workers. Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered evidence of the oldest domesticated dog in that region in what could be the beginning of huge insights about the development of human society across the Middle East. Uber just had their biggest month ever in a sign that certain businesses might not have much trouble bouncing back from last year’s losses. And what happens if a shark bites your arm off after you get your COVID vaccine? Do you have to get another dose? Dr. Akiko Iwasaki has the answer. Sponsors: Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: We found methane-eating bacteria living in a common Australian tree. It could be a game changer for curbing greenhouse gases (The Conversation) Ministers urged to give UK home-workers a ‘right to disconnect’ (The Guardian) Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work (CNBC) Archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of domesticated dogs in Arabian Peninsula (EurekAlert) 285: A Pill Meant for Horses (Dear Hank and John, Spotify) Antibody response after removal of muscle (Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Twitter) Differential dependence on target site tissue for gene gun and intramuscular DNA immunizations (National Library of Medicine) Uber Posts Record Demand for March (Wall Street Journal) Airbnb/Vrbo inventory sold out (Rafat Ali, Twitter) AirDNA Market Review | US March 2021 (AirDNA) Airbnb is trying to preemptively cancel post-pandemic bacchanals (The Verge) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cotkey ride home for t Tuesday, April 13th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.7	Researchers have found a methane-eating bacteria living in a common species of Australian tree.
0:49.9	The UK is considering a legal right to disconnect for remote workers.
0:56.4	Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered evidence of the oldest domesticated dog in that region
1:02.0	in what could be the beginning of huge insights about the development of human society across the Middle East.
1:09.0	Uber just had their biggest month ever in a sign that certain businesses
1:13.5	might not have much trouble bouncing back from last year's losses. And what happens if a shark
1:19.4	bites your arm off after you get your COVID vaccine? Do you have to get another dose? Dr. Akiko
1:25.1	Iwasaki has the answer. Here are some of the cool things from the news
1:29.4	today.
1:33.3	Researchers have discovered methane-eating bacteria, living in a common Australian tree species
1:39.5	known as the paperbark. Now, of course, anything that reduces methane is great, but one thing
1:45.2	that I didn't realize is that trees themselves actually emit quite a bit of methane. As the
1:50.9	researchers noted in the conversation, methane is a greenhouse gas that is 45 times more potent
1:56.5	at warming the earth than carbon dioxide is. And recent research has shown evidence that methane gas emissions from trees,
2:03.7	so-called treethane, accounts for 50% of all methane emissions in the tropical Amazon Basin,
2:09.9	the world's largest natural source of methane.
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