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Role of Methanotrophs in Mitigating Global Warming

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There is growing concern about global warming worldwide. Greenhouse gases, which absorb the heat energy reflected by the earth’s surface, are the main causes of global warming. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone are the main greenhouse gases. Methane is about 23 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Anthropogenic sources release methane directly or indirectly into the atmosphere account for up to one-third of the global warming currently taking place. Methanotrophic bacteria or methanotrophs may serve as a biofilter and use methane as a source of energy before it is released into the atmosphere. They have been the only recognized major biological sink for atmospheric methane and play a key role in reducing the load of methane up to 15% to the total global methane destruction. Because of its physiologically adaptable nature, methanotrophs exist in diverse habitats and present in a wide range of pH, temperature, oxygen, salinity, and radiation. In this chapter, role of methanotrophs as an effective tool in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions is reported.

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F. M. is thankful to U.G.C., New Delhi for financial assistance in the form of Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Women.

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Masood, F., Ahmad, S., Malik, A. (2021). Role of Methanotrophs in Mitigating Global Warming. In: Lone, S.A., Malik, A. (eds) Microbiomes and the Global Climate Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4508-9_4

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