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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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Scientists use bacteria to remove uranium from polluted water

Posted on November 29, 2021October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

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, 2021June 25, 2025 by Hunter Dulay

    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, 2021June 26, 2025 by Sciworthy

      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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        Using Reishi mushrooms to filter methane out of the atmosphere

        Posted on January 11, 2021December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

        Could dead or living #fungi be used as a biofilter to trap and remove #methane, the potent #greenhousegas, from the atmosphere? Researchers…

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          Fungi may be able to help clean up polluted water

          Posted on November 24, 2020December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

          Human activities such as coal mining and processing can cause high levels of selenium contamination, which can be harmful to human health.…

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