{"id":897760,"date":"2026-09-19T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897760\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:14:15","slug":"tree-bark-home-to-methane-absorbing-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897760\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree bark home to methane-absorbing microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UN report in September said global heating will hit 1.8C \u2014 at least \u2014 but this could be partially\u00a0reversed by removing carbon from the atmosphere. One way to achieve this is by establishing vast new forests. Trees take carbon dioxide from the air for photosynthesis, and it turns out microbes living in tree bark can absorb another potent greenhouse gas, methane. Shelby Traynor meets two researchers investigating the microbial world within tree bark.<\/p>\n<p>Guests<br \/>Bob Leung<br \/>Microbial Ecophysiology and Genomics\u00a0Group Leader<br \/>Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute<br \/>Monash University<br \/>Melbourne VIC<\/p>\n<p>Luke Jeffrey<br \/>Forest Biogeochemist<br \/>Faculty of Science and Engineering<br \/>Southern Cross University<br \/>Lismore NSW<\/p>\n<p>Reporter<br \/>Shelby Traynor<\/p>\n<p>Presenter<br \/>Belinda Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UN report in September said global heating will hit 1.8C \u2014 at least \u2014 but this could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":["post-897760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}