SOURCE: Imperial College London DATE: November 12, 2019 SNIP: As bacteria adapt to hotter temperatures, they speed up their respiration rate and release more carbon, potentially accelerating climate change. By releasing more carbon as global temperatures rise,...
SOURCE: Hakai Magazine DATE: March 4, 2019 SNIP: In Washington State’s Puget Sound, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are infecting the area’s harbor seals and harbor porpoises. A recent preliminary survey of 11 animals has produced worrying results: 80 percent of animals...
SOURCE: ABC News DATE: February 12, 2019 SNIP: A senior tropical disease researcher is warning that cases of the potentially lethal soil-borne infectious disease melioidosis will increase due to climate change. Melioidosis is caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium and...
SOURCE: Yale Climate Connections DATE: March 22, 2017 SNIP: Scientists are investigating a new “positive feedback” in Greenland’s melting ice sheet—as climate warms, more microbial growth on the ice sheet is darkening ice, and hastening ice...
