Eat Your Methane Wheaties

Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
(NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition)

Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift away, or be consumed by methane-eating microbes? GoMRI researchers with ECOGIG found that all or most of the methane was eaten by microbes, fueling a deep-sea food web. Get the full story about methane and microbes after the spill.