{"id":229478,"date":"2026-01-21T01:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tree-bark-microbes-for-climate-management"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:47:44","slug":"tree-bark-microbes-for-climate-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tree-bark-microbes-for-climate-management","title":{"rendered":"Tree bark microbes for climate management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tree-bark-microbes-for-climate-management2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new <i>Science<\/i> study, researchers report that bark microbes process methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide, showing that bark is an important component of global trace gas dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in a new <i>Science<\/i> Perspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microbes living in bark can process the greenhouse gases methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec9651#con\"> Vincent Gauci<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec9651#tab-contributors\">Authors Info &amp; Affiliations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Vol 391, Issue 6781<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tree-bark-microbes-for-climate-management\">Continue reading \u201cTree bark microbes for climate management\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Science study, researchers report that bark microbes process methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide, showing that bark is an important component of global trace gas dynamics. Learn more in a new Science Perspective. Microbes living in bark can process the greenhouse gases methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide. Vincent Gauci Authors Info &amp; Affiliations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}