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Category: How can microbes clean up the environment?

How can microbes, archae, and fungi be used to clean up pollution? How do we treat water and soil using microbiology?
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Thinking like a bacterium can improve water quality

Posted on January 23, 2023January 20, 2023 by Sciworthy 326 views

Researchers show that mathematical models based on cell biology can help lake managers reduce toxic algal blooms and improve the quality of…

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    Can insects munch their way through our plastic problem?

    Posted on November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 by Erica Curles 1k views

    The invention of plastic improved human lives in many ways, but it has also created a lot of waste. Plastic waste can take centuries to…

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      How long will plastic waste stick around in the deep sea?

      Posted on August 15, 2022November 8, 2022 by Aubrey Zerkle 1k views

      Plastics are ideal for use in household and industrial products because they are strong and elastic, but these properties also make them…

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        What if plastic could detect light or clean wastewater?

        Posted on April 25, 2022November 8, 2022 by Gina Misra 720 views

        Engineered living materials are composed of both synthetic materials and living cells. They are made in a lab to do things, like respond to…

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          Invasive trees are changing the soil in the American Southwest

          Posted on January 27, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 1k views

          Ecosystems with diverse species and healthy habitats provide services that keep the system stable and are beneficial to humans. Humans…

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            Microbes that eat iron are a cause of bedrock erosion

            Posted on January 6, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 561 views

            Are microscopic mineral-eating microbes breaking down our mountains? They may be behind bedrock erosion.

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              Hundred-year-old dirt may be able to help restore damaged desert

              Posted on December 2, 2021November 8, 2022 by Sciworthy 757 views

              Scientists hope to restore biocrusts by transplanting healthy salvaged biocrusts to damaged areas. This method was found to successfully…

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                Scientists use bacteria to remove uranium from polluted water

                Posted on November 29, 2021October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 1k views

                Scientists discover a bacterial species that could potentially clean up uranium contamination in the environment following mining activity…

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                  Researchers propose making concrete with human bodily fluids

                  Posted on October 25, 2021October 24, 2022 by Hunter Dulay 1k views

                  Imagine what it would be like to be an astronaut landing on Mars for the first time. The red planet has little more than dust and rocks as…

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                    Can hidden sulfur cycling influence greenhouse gas emissions in wetlands?

                    Posted on March 2, 2021October 24, 2022 by Mary Sabuda 441 views

                    Wetlands are the largest source of methane to Earth’s atmosphere. How do microbes, sulfur, and mixing of water sources influence…

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