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Ocean Microbes: How They May Directly Impact Climate Change
2015-05-19 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A team of scientists from UC San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reported in the journal ACS Central Science that the process by which marine bacteria consume phytoplankton has an apparent direct role in affecting cloud properties. Phytoplankton are microorganisms that produce molecules that become airborne when they decay - that is, if bacteria don't eat the molecules first. As the bacteria feed, phytoplankton break down into component molecules, such as fats and lipids, which...
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Ocean Microbes And Climate Change: How Marine Bacteria Are Spurring Global Warming
2015-05-19 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: They may be tiny, but they pack a strong punch. Scientists are finding that the smallest ocean organisms can have a major impact on one of the biggest issues of the 21st century climate change. New research has unpacked the role of phytoplankton and ocean bacteria in the formation of sea spray aerosol, the tiny particles that enter the atmosphere and help create the drops of moisture that form clouds, which control earths temperature. It shows that such microbes could actually moderate the chemistry...
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Food Safetys Smallest Challenge: Microbes
2015-04-01 18:34:00| Food Processing
Hot Mamas was on a strong growth trajectory for its private label humus, salsa and dips. Then an invisible enemy shut her down.
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Microbes in the seafloor: Little nutrients, lots of oxygen
2015-03-16 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] About one quarter of the global seafloor is extremely nutrient poor. Contrary to previous assumptions, it contains oxygen not just in the thin surface layer, but also throughout its entire thickness. The underlying basement rocks contain oxygen as well. An international research team made these new discoveries through analysis of drill cores from the South Pacific Gyre. In the latest issue of Nature Geoscience the scientists also point out the potential effects on th…
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Team discovers how microbes build a powerful antibiotic
2014-10-26 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] diya@illinois.edu 217-333-5802 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign @illinois_alma CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthrough in understanding how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature. Their discovery solves a …
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