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Read more: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-a-termite-s-mound-filters-methane-and-what-it-means-for-greenhouse-gases
TIL that termites – like mammalian ruminants – produce a lot of methane through their digestion process, but bacteria living in their nests filter and absorb a lot of it.
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Oooo I smell a technological innovation coming on
There’s a saying, one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
TIL I was a “mammalian ruminant”. 🙂
Could we grow this bacteria to help with our methane leaks in our infrastructure?
So what happens when one throws a match into the termite house?? For science, of course.