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Microbes: Cleaning Up (and Improving) Biodiesel's Act
2014-05-22 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Biodiesel plants, while "green," are not entirely environmentally sustainable. Now a pair of genetically engineered microbes may be the perfect solution, cleaning up biodiesel plant wastewater while producing ethanol and electricity to help fuel the fuel-making process. According to Michigan State University (MSU) researcher Gemma Reguera, current bio-diesel plants "pay hefty fees to have toxic wastewater hauled off to treatment plants" - a problem which makes the "green" fuel costly and not entirely...
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Microbes could help clean up oil spills
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: New research finds that a tiny microbe may play a big role in cleaning up oil spills and natural gas leaks. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest marine disaster in U.S. history, killing 11 people and spewing nearly five million gallons of oil into the water. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, some 14,000 spills are reported each year in the United States where oil and gas flow through a network of pipelines and are carried by barge,...
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04.23.14 -- Corralling Milk Microbes That Survive Pasteurization
2014-04-22 07:24:40| dairynetwork News Articles
04/23/14Dairy Network.com Newsletter
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Corralling Milk Microbes That Survive Pasteurization
2014-04-21 08:19:49| dairynetwork Home Page
Corralling desperados with names like bacillus and paenibacillus will require ingenuity and an arsenal of weapons. These outlaws aren’t rustling cattle—they’re making milk sour and cheese soft and crumbly.
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MIT researchers propose massive bloom of methanogenic microbes may have triggered end-Permian extinction
2014-04-01 13:30:39| Green Car Congress
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