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Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2011Environmentallison speers, conductive pili, dena cologgi, electricity, environmental disasters, gemma reguera, geobacter bacteria, groundwater, michigan state university, microbes, microbial fuel cells, microorganisms, nanowires, nuclear contamination, nuclear waste, polluted sites, production of nuclear fuel, radioactive material, sanela lampa pastirk, shelly kelly, toxic metals, uranium

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals.

Details of the process, which can be improved and patented, are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The implications could eventually benefit sites forever changed by nuclear contamination, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist. (more…)

Oil in Gulf of Mexico: Biologists Cite Need for Critical Data to Determine Ecological Consequences

By Guest PostFebruary 6, 2011Environmentbiologists, bp disaster, brian bowen, demographic traits, ecological damages, ecosystems, environmental disasters, exxon valdez oil spill, karen bjorndal, largest offshore oil spill, marine life, political will, u s history, valdez oil spill

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty years after biologists attempted to determine the ecological damages to marine life from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists dealing with the BP disaster find themselves with the same problem: the lack of critical data to determine the ecological consequences of human-induced environmental disasters, a University of Florida researcher said. (more…)

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Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

Oil in Gulf of Mexico: Biologists Cite Need for Critical Data to Determine Ecological Consequences