Researchers reveal that microorganisms are responsible for transforming mercury into methylmercury, a highly toxic form of mercury, in streams.
Nanoscale features in rocks enable more carbon dioxide to be trapped as a solid carbonate material underground.
Imaging tools aid research in global climate change, plant genetics, biofuels, agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
Understanding how two microbes work together to produce the greenhouse gas methane.
A microbe not known for cellulose degradation has 15 cellulases that may improve biofuel production.
Impacts of anthropogenic warming on tropical land region rainfall.
Insights into the origin of ligninases can help develop processes to convert biomass into bioenergy.
Regional Climate Models predict greater drought resistance in southwest U.S. than General Circulation Models (GCMs).
A polar alga with lipid metabolism enzymes may prove useful harnessing algae for biodiesel production.
Understanding how microbes use cytochromes to generate electricity in biofilms.
Recent findings reveal that existing climate models overestimate scattering and absorption of sunlight by aerosols at altitudes between 6-10 kilometers.
Complex aerosol processes accurately captured in climate models with a new, minimal aerosol module.
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