also come from coal, oil and gas production. wastewater treatment plants and landfills. >> anyplace you have organic material that is breaking down, it produces methane as a byproduct. >> reporter: it is more potent than carbon dioxide. >> methane not only warms the atmosphere but it also warms it much faster. >> reporter: this may hold the key, this liquid contains methane eating microbes, they pulled the methane out of the air by eating it, the microbes transform a climate harming gas into a beneficial product. in this case, an organic fertilizer. carla rizzo is the director of microbiology, she says these soil microbes have dramatically declined around the world. >> basically we know what they like and we give it to them. so, they will multiply and make