Finnish Researchers Collect Hydrogen-Producing Microbes from Arctic Seafloor

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Smithsonian Magazine reports on a University of Oulu (Finland) team, studying bacteria at Arctic cold seeps (seafloor vents leaking methane) north of Svalbard that produce hydrogen as a by-product of feeding on methane.

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