{"id":12126,"date":"2017-08-31T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2017-12-11T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:10:03","slug":"bacteria-thrive-on-methane-deep-beneath-the-antarctic-ice-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/bacteria-thrive-on-methane-deep-beneath-the-antarctic-ice-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria thrive on methane deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featuring C-DEBI researcher Alexander Michaud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have direct observations of methane-eating bacteria in a subglacial lake in Antarctica. The study also provides evidence of increased methane production below the ice sheet.<\/p>\n<p>A subglacial lake 800 metres beneath the frozen surface of West Antarctica might not sound like a hospitable place for life. But that is exactly what scientists have discovered: methane-eating bacteria surviving deep underneath the ice sheet.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time that scientists have observed these bacteria in action. At the same time, they have also found direct evidence of increased methane production underneath the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI researcher Alexander Michaud. For the first time, scientists have direct observations of methane-eating bacteria in a subglacial lake in Antarctica. The study also provides evidence of increased methane production below the ice sheet. A subglacial lake 800 metres beneath the frozen surface of West Antarctica might not sound like a hospitable place for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}