Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
This is huge 🌳 Forests are even more important for the climate than we thought!
We’ve known for a long time that trees remove toxic CO2 from the atmosphere.
A new study has found they also remove methane (a greenhouse gas responsible for around 30% of global warming) through the microbes that live in their bark 🤯
One more reason to appreciate trees 💚
Sources: The Guardian; Gauci at al. (2024). ‘Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces.’ Nature
This is huge 🌳 Forests are even more important for the climate than we thought!
We’ve known for a long time that trees remove toxic CO2 from the atmosphere.
A new study has found they also remove methane (a greenhouse gas responsible for around 30% of global warming) through the microbes that live in their bark 🤯
One more reason to appreciate trees 💚
Sources: The Guardian; Gauci at al. (2024). ‘Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces.’ Nature
