How ‘Iron Man’ bacteria could help protect the environment
But Reguera’s team challenged that thinking and found Geobacter to be effective cobalt “miners,” extracting the metal from rust without letting it penetrate their cells and kill them. Rather, the bacteria essentially coat themselves with the metal.…
The Conversation: Pikas are NOT Dying Out from Global Warming
Arizona Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences using using personal observations to challenge the wild climate model predictions and the scientific consensus of his colleagues.…
A Response To “A CO2 Oddity”
By Joe Bastardi I see that Willis has referenced an idea I posed on a blog from another source so I wanted to make sure for WUWT I am clear.……
Modern microbes provide window into ancient ocean
Step into your new, microscopic time machine. Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered that a type of single-celled organism living in modern-day oceans may have a lot in common with life forms that existed billions of years ago–and that fundamentally transformed the planet.…
More food for Polar Bears: Arctic report card 2020 highlights the huge benefit of less summer sea ice
As well as summarizing sea ice changes, NOAA’s 2020 Arctic Report Card features two reports that document the biggest advantage of much less summer sea ice than there was before 2003: increased primary productivity. Being at the top of the Arctic food chain, polar bears have been beneficiaries of this phenomenon because the Arctic marine mammals they depend on for food – seals, walrus and bowhead whales – have been thriving despite less ice in summer.…
SMH: Biden Could Work with the EU to Impose a Global Carbon Price
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the EU and Biden administration working together could together impose a global carbon price to which even China would have to submit. But there is a catch which proponents of global carbon cartels are ignoring.…