Topic: Microbiology
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will virtually ban phosphates in dishwasher and laundry soap to curb the pollution of rivers, lakes and seas by algae from 2013, EU lawmakers decided on Wednesday.Phosphates help soften calcium-rich hard water but they can lead ...
Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said that "large regions" could sustain life.Charley Lineweaver's team, from the Australian National University, compared models of temperature and pressure conditions on Earth with those ...
ERIE, Pa (Reuters) - After a celebrated comeback from abysmal water conditions and high pollution levels in the 1970s, Lake Erie is regressing to the highest levels of phosphorous contamination in 40 years, a Great Lakes expert said on Thursday."Levels are back-up ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S.-based OriginOil, which has developed ways to harvest algae so it can be used as biomass, will issue licenses for its technology enabling biofuel and chemicals producers to cut carbon emissions, the chief executive said on Friday.Riggs Eckelberry said ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday.The five lakes, which contain one-fifth of the world's fresh water ...
A study of underwater coral reefs by researchers of King's College London may lead to the development of a pill to prevent sunburn.The research team hope within the next two years to test a compound based on one which shields coral against ...
Some 8.7 million different species exist on Earth, though a tiny amount of those have actually been discovered and catalogued, researchers said Tuesday.The count, described by the open access journal PLoS Biology in which it is presented as "the most precise calculation ...
Microfossils found in Australia show that more than 3.4 billion years ago, bacteria thrived on an Earth that had no oxygen, a finding that boosts hopes life has existed on Mars, a study published Sunday says.Researchers from the University of Western Australia ...
Three young Americans have died this year from a rare water-borne amoeba that swims up through the nose and infects the brain, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said Friday.Naegleria fowleri -- an amoeba found in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and ...
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A dangerous amoeba that thrives in warm, freshwater bodies in the heat of summer caused the recent death of a 16-year-old Central Florida girl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed on Monday.Courtney Nash died Saturday, 10 days ...
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Algae Fuels U.S. Navy
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Gulf Oil Eating Bugs
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