Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...packaging methods utilizing air, oxygen and carbon dioxide can have an impact on the microbial spoilage of re...ir (MAP1), the second of 60% oxygen and 40% carbon dioxide (MAP2), and the third of 20% oxygen and 40% carbon dioxide (MAP3). While stored, the beef was monit...Energy-rich portfolio of new genome sequencing targets for DOE JGI
... sources of fuel, for example, transforming carbon dioxide effluent into methane. The work has even more astronomical ramifications--modeling extraterrestrial environments and processes. Plant pests are the target of another international collaboration, linking researchers in Sweden, France, Norway, Germa...Dragon Symposium highlights success of projects
...challenges. Global atmospheric mapping of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution performed by ERS-2's Global Monitoring Ozone Experiment (GOME) instrument and Envisat's Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument revealed the world's largest amount of NO2 hanging ab...... a cyanobactetrium, combines electrons with carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Bereft of these "electron acceptors," bacterial nanowires "will literally reach out and connect cells from one to another to form an electrically integrated community," Gorby said. "The physiological and ecological implic...Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
...To get an idea of what's going to happen if carbon dioxide levels double in the future, you'd have to go back 20 or 30 million years in time. If you knew what the topography of these six mountain ranges was then, you could include that in your computer models and see how they respond when you double the carb...More large forest fires linked to climate change
...ome a source of atmospheric CO2. Additional carbon dioxide could further warm the climate and exacerbate the fire problem. Swetnam was initially skeptical that climate was driving recent large-scale changes in fire frequency. Doing this research changed his mind. "I had thought it was primarily fuel lo...Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes
...sponse to global warming and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A 2005 Ph.D. graduate of Johns Hopkins, Ries collaborated on the research with his dissertation advisors, Steven M. Stanley (now of the University of Hawaii) and Lawrence A. Hardie, professor in the Morton K. Blaustein Department...Report warns about carbon dioxide threats to marine life
Boulder--Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning are dramatically altering... the known effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on these organisms, known as marine calcifiers, and recommends future research for determining the e...Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
...in open-air fields, with elevated levels of carbon dioxide simulating the composition of the atmosphere proje...rs and transparent field chambers, in which carbon dioxide or ozone were easily retained and controlled. Such tests provided projections for maize, rice, sorgh...Media teleconference announces ocean acidification findings
Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide are dramatically altering ocean chemistry and threatening corals and other marine organisms that secrete skeletal structures. A new report summarizes research into ocean acidification and recommends future studies to determine the extent of the effec...Global atmospheric carbon level may depend primarily on southernmost ocean
...et's critical means of regulating levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, according to Princeton ...hind the variation in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide that occur over lengthy periods in Earth's history, the Princeton team may have found a clue to wher...Tropical rainforest nutrients linked to global carbon dioxide levels
...ain forest soils cause them to release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to research conduct... Academy of Sciences. "The large change in carbon dioxide emissions from tropical forest soils due to soil nutrients is a new dimension in understanding these...Tropical forest CO2 emissions tied to nutrient increases
...s caused them to release substantially more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a concern to scientists monitoring global change, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The study showed when either phosphorus or nitrogen -- both of which occur naturally in the rain forest soils -- were added to ...Conservation offers financial rewards for cattle ranchers, study finds
...ago Climate Exchange to companies that emit carbon dioxide based on how much carbon is stored in the regenerating koa forest. The study found that without government subsidies, selling carbon credits actually results in a net loss of income for the rancher, who would end up losing $488 per acre through the r...JCI table of contents, June 1, 2006
...encounters the neutral pH and physiological carbon dioxide level that is characteristic of host tissues. The authors found that a sphingolipid known as glucosylceramide, which is present on the surface of fungal cells, is critical for extracellular growth under these conditions in alveolar spaces and in the ...North Pole's ancient past holds lessons for future global warming
...his time. "Many argue whether or not rising carbon dioxide concentrations will cause global warming. But, tho... huge release of a greenhouse gas, possibly carbon dioxide or methane, into the atmosphere. If methane was the source of carbon, global warming was ultimately ...What lies beneath: LSU researchers explore Gulf floor
...in bad weather. Also, there are oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to worry about, and the possibility of electrical, navigational and communication failures. The comforting factor, the men said, is that in the Gulf, the crew is considered "within rescue" by authorities. Sometimes, researchers take Alvin ...DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome
...en Ragsdale, University of Nebraska. Fixes carbon dioxide in absence of oxygen. Nostoc punctiforme. Jack Me...eks, University of California, Davis. Fixes carbon dioxide and nitrogen; produces hydrogen; survives acidic, anaerobic, and low-temperature conditions. Biore...Sweet success for pioneering hydrogen energy project
... oxygen in the air to generate electricity. Carbon dioxide produced in the first reactor was captured and disposed of safely, preventing its release into the atmosphere. Waste biomass left behind by the process was removed, coated with palladium2 and used as a catalyst in another project, funded by the Biot......d by industrial and automotive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Now, a University of U...rld, due to the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide from factories and cars," Garrett says. "Now we are finding there is another way pollution can war...