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ECOSYSTEMS MEDIA

Trees are able to take up methane from the atmosphere because of methane-loving microbes living in their bark

Professor Yadvinder Malhi is among an international team who have found tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere.

Read the paper here
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07592-w

Contact

Kerry-Anne Grey

Oxford Ecosystems Programme Co-ordinator

Environmental Change Institute

Oxford University Centre for the Environment

South Parks Road 

Oxford

OX1 3QY

Email: ecosystems@eci.ox.ac.uk

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