The gist: a particular species of fly uses methane to keep its larva near the surface in freshwater. That is about 2k to 130k larva per 1 meter2 of freshwater. But methane use by the larva increases in dirty water. So keep freshwater from becoming dirty e.g. agricultural run-off might decrease methane release from freshwater…
Summary at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314081612.htm Abstract at: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44478 Question: Is this research being overly hyped or is decreasing methane release even a few percent from freshwater a Very Big Deal? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
