The diversity of microorganisms living in the permafrost zone can prevent climate change and delay the warming of the Earth’s surface – this is the opinion of Russian scientists together with their colleagues from the USA.
According to a source of RIA Novosti, in the last three hundred years, the temperature of the Earth’s surface has increased by approximately one degree. However, in the permafrost region, the temperature rise has reached four degrees in just 70 years. The thawing of the permafrost creates a favorable environment for soil microorganisms. The low diversity of microorganisms transforms, in turn, ancient carbon into methane. The resulting greenhouse gas contributes to warming.
Scientists have found that it is the high diversity of microorganisms that reduces methane production and stabilizes temperatures, as competition between species suppresses each other. When microbial development and diversity are reduced, the temperature rises. Thus, global temperature rise can be predicted by looking at microbial diversity.
2023-12-06 00:04:03
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