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People can sicken animals

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / April 17, 2013

Wildlife can sometimes become infected with germs shed by people

Posted in Animals, Body & Health | Tagged biological pollution, bobcats, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, cats, clams, crabs, ecology, emerging infectious disease, explainer, feces, filter feeders, germs, marine mammals, Melissa Miller, microbe, microbiology, mollusk, mussels, Oysters, parasite, pathogen, Pollution, runoff, sea otters, terms: pets, toxoplasma, toxoplasmosis, wetlands, wildcat, wildlife

Like poison for phosphorus

By Stephen Ornes / December 13, 2010

Scientists report finding bacterium that can live off arsenic

Posted in Chemistry | Tagged Adaptation, arsenic, bacteria, bacterium, Chemosynthesis, energetics, extreme environments, forensic science, microbe, organic chemistry, organic molecules, phosphorus, toxicology, toxicology/drugs

Bugs with Gas

By Julie Rehmeyer / September 28, 2006

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

Posted in Earth | Tagged Alternative energy, bacteria/protists/fungi, bugs, entomology, ethane, Marine bacteria, microbe, oceanography, organic chemistry, organic compound, propane