{"id":920112,"date":"2026-07-15T21:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/crab-dug-tunnels-boost-methane-eating-microbes-in-coastal-wetlands-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:15:05","slug":"crab-dug-tunnels-boost-methane-eating-microbes-in-coastal-wetlands-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/crab-dug-tunnels-boost-methane-eating-microbes-in-coastal-wetlands-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Crab-dug tunnels boost methane-eating microbes in coastal wetlands, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Wetlands are a significant producer of methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Yet not all of it escapes into the atmosphere. One reason is crabs. A study published in the journal Environmental Science &#038; Technology has shown that crab burrows can substantially increase natural processes that consume methane before it reaches the atmosphere&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-crab-dug-tunnels-boost-methane.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margarete Volkman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Wetlands are a significant producer of methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Yet not all of it escapes into the atmosphere. One reason is crabs. A study published in the journal Environmental Science &#038; Technology has shown that crab burrows can substantially increase natural processes that consume methane before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151026,536,146675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crab-dug","category-science-nature","category-tunnels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}