Tag Archives: bacteria/protists/fungi

Iron versus climate change

By Roberta Kwok / August 9, 2012
A tiny organism called a diatom can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and carry the carbon to the bottom of the ocean. Credit: Marina Montresor, SZN / Alfred Wegener Institute.

Metal deposits can promote the growth of ocean algae that gobble greenhouse gas

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Stony bacteria

By Roberta Kwok / May 14, 2012
A newly discovered bacterium has pearl-like lumps inside. Credit: CNRS, K. Benzerara & S. Borensztajn

Lake-dwelling bacterium has hard lumps inside it

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Suffocating waters

By Cecile LeBlanc / March 29, 2012
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Coastal animals around the world are spending more time in or around waters with too little oxygen

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Glowing, gutsy hitchhikers

By Stephen Ornes / January 10, 2012
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Bacteria glow to get across the ocean inside animals’ guts

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Floor of Gulf got slimed

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011
Last year, scientists discovered a kind of oil-eating bacteria, shown in this picture, in the plumes of oil rising from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil from BP spill was likely dragged down by bacterial goo

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Underwater Jungles

By Emily Sohn / September 28, 2007

Cold-water-loving kelp forests may be surprisingly abundant in the tropics.

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Bugs with Gas

By Julie Rehmeyer / September 28, 2006

Microbes living in sand under the sea may produce gases such as propane.

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Detecting an Eerie Sea Glow

By Emily Sohn / September 30, 2005

At night, glowing bacteria can give large areas of the sea a surreal milky color.

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Arctic Algae Show Climate Change

By Emily Sohn / March 4, 2005

Sediment from Arctic lakes shows that much of the Northern Hemisphere has been warming for many decades.

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