Soil Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:37:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stopping Peatland Wildfires May Reduce Climate Change https://www.greenoptimistic.com/peatland-wildfires-climate-change/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/peatland-wildfires-climate-change/#respond Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:37:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60188 Climate change happens from both direct and indirect human interference- just look at the recent rise in wildfires. A study in Nature Scientific Reports by ecologist Mike Waddington revealed the repercussions of draining and mining peatlands: widespread wildfires. Peatlands, or bogs found in the northern hemisphere, are vulnerable to fires because of unearthed organic material […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agricultural-soil-fracking-spills/feed/ 0 60033 Microbes Accelerate Release of Carbon from Soil to Atmosphere https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microbes-accelerate-release-of-carbon-from-soil-to-atmosphere-20121128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microbes-accelerate-release-of-carbon-from-soil-to-atmosphere-20121128/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:17:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28924 In response to warmer temperatures, the microbes that thrive in soils increase their rate of decomposing soil carbon, and hence, they accelerate release of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is the latest finding of scientists from University of Wyoming (UW) and Colorado State University (CSU). To determine the mechanisms behind the accelerated soil carbon loss […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microbes-accelerate-release-of-carbon-from-soil-to-atmosphere-20121128/feed/ 0 28924 Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4294 Derek Lovley, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently experimented with a microbe named "Geobacter", who loves to live in sediments and mud, and whose hairlike filaments can produce electricity from the muddy environment it loves to live in.

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