Sentences with phrase «anaerobic microbes»

An international team of researchers has shown how anaerobic microbes in oil deposits around the world — including in unconventional sources such as the oil sands — naturally break down crude oil into methane in the reservoir.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

Instead of mitochondria (the cellular engines that convert oxygen to energy, present in all other known animal cells), these creatures contain structures resembling hydrogenosomes, the organelles that anaerobic microbes use to generate energy.

Tropical rainforests harbor anaerobic microbes that actually utilize lignin as their sole source of carbon.

is a collaborative research project in collaboration with Marissa Benedict that explored, among other things, Joseph Beuys, the material movement of Chicago and its history, the lifestyle of urban coyotes, diving for anaerobic microbes and much more

Brooks added a non-toxic, natural additive that encourages anaerobic microbes to break down the material once the material hits an active, enclosed landfill.

remember tho, even if disposables went biodegradable, they would still need the presence of oxygen and aerobic and anaerobic microbes to break down, something in short supply in landfills.

In warming areas that grow boggier every year, this might mean ensuring that there is enough oxygen - rich moving water, which would make the area less hospitable to anaerobic microbes that belch large quantities of methane.