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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?

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The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, on average.

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And as permafrost becomes, well, not so perma, microbes are warming up, feasting on organic compounds in the thawed soil.

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The microbes then belch methane,a potent greenhouse gas.

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Meaning that the warming Arctic could become a big source of carbon pollution.

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But maybe it won't.

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Because it turns out there are also a lot of microbes that like to snack on the methane waste their buddies emit.

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In fact, some 90 percent of the methane bubbling up through Arctic soils is already soaked up this way.

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Now researchers report that they've found a new string of methane-eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

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The soils on the island are not rich in carbon, meaning there's not a lot of methane waste.

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So these still-unnamed bacteria instead harvest the gas straight out of the air.

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And as that air warms up, they're getting hungrier.

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The scientists project that as temperatures rise over the next century, the bugs could gobble up anywhere from five to 30 times the amount of methane they eat today.

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The study appears in The ISME Journal.

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Most Arctic permafrost, 87 percent is actually carbon-poor, minerally stuff like the soil on Axel Heiberg Island.

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Meaning much of the Arctic could soon be sucking up methane.

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It's still too early to say whether the region could actually become a carbon sink.

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But the researchers say that at the very least climate models need to reflect this latest nuance of our warming planet.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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