Shelby Trainer

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126 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Yeah, and so in terms of hydrogen and methane, those are strong gases for climate change, right?

And then carbon monoxide is generally is it generally just air quality or is that a gotta

It is

While it's good news that the microbes in Trey Bark are gobbling up some of these gases, that's not always the case.

Depending on environmental factors, these microbe communities can actually flip and become producers of these gases.

And these conditions could become more common under climate change.

It's amazing.

It's kind of like how we have homeostasis and our bodies will change our blood pressure depending on the circumstances and these trees are changing.

Well the microbes are changing depending on the circumstances, the behavior that they have.

And do we know how significant a role they're playing in consuming these gases?

Preliminary estimates suggest that microbes in tree barks could be offsetting up to 15% of our annual methane emissions.

But Luke is quick to point out that's a very early estimate.

And we have to keep in mind that this study was limited to northeast New South Wales.

Yeah.

Plus I think you need some researchers in other countries to join the tree buck club.

This whole project has already gotten Bob thinking about what we could do practically as a result of this discovery.

I'm at Narrowneck Peninsula in the Blue Mountains on a warm December day, about to visit an endangered shrub, Xyeria caveniae.

It's an ordinary-looking shrub with oily leaves that erupts into small pink and white flowers.

It can grow up to two meters tall.

But the population I'm about to visit is struggling.

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