{"id":89893,"date":"2019-04-24T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/microbes-may-act-as-gatekeepers-of-earths-deep-carbon"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:45:29","slug":"microbes-may-act-as-gatekeepers-of-earths-deep-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/microbes-may-act-as-gatekeepers-of-earths-deep-carbon","title":{"rendered":"Microbes may act as gatekeepers of Earth\u2019s Deep Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAf7MvYZfwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica\u2019s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface. They wanted to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving from Earth\u2019s surface into the deep interior. According to their new study in <i>Nature<\/i>, the answer is affirmatively\u2014yes they can.<\/p>\n<p>This groundbreaking study shows that microbes consume and\u2014crucially\u2014help trap a small amount of sinking carbon in this zone. This finding has important implications for understanding Earth\u2019s fundamental processes and for revealing how nature can potentially help mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n<p>At a subduction zone there is communication between Earth\u2019s surface and interior. Two plates collide and the denser plate sinks, transporting material from the surface into Earth\u2019s interior. Showing that the microbes at the near-surface are playing a fundamental role in how carbon and other elements are being locked up into the crust provides a profound new understanding of Earth processes and helps researchers model how Earth\u2019s interior may develop over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-microbes-gatekeepers-earth-deep-carbon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica\u2019s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface. They wanted to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving from Earth\u2019s surface into the deep interior. According to their new study in Nature, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89893","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}