MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Windfall Bio, a leader in methane-to-value solutions, announced its $28 million Series A funding round led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Global Brain (through its Norinchukin Innovation Fund L.P.), Incite Ventures, and Positive Ventures. Existing investors also participated in the round, including B37 Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mayfield, and UNTITLED (a fund backed by the Tetra Laval family). Supporting its commercial pipeline, the new capital will enable Windfall to expand pilot deployments across methane intensive industries including agriculture, oil and gas, and waste management. Windfall will also invest resources to continue building out its team, manufacturing capacity and supply chain to meet growing global customer demand for methane mitigation solutions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is 86x more warming than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Methane concentrations in the atmosphere have more than doubled since preindustrial times and emissions from manmade and natural sources continue to accelerate

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Distinguishing between heroes and villains can require some detailed scrutiny. When it comes to . [+] climate change it takes a microscope to see some of the most important actors because they are bacteria gettyIt is often said that a compelling drama needs both heroes and villains. The unfolding Climate Crisis is an all-too-real drama, and it involves human actors playing both of those roles. However, there are some important heroes and villains in the “cast” of the climate story that really need to be “put under the microscope.” That’s because they are too small to see with the naked eye - they are bacteria. These tiny “actors” often play a villainous role when they grow on our organic waste-streams because they can produce the potent greenhouse gas, methane