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Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you. I always hear about the fungi and not the bacteria...

Great reminder about the fires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous in the section titled "Atmospheric oxygen levels".

For example: the increasing occurrence of charcoal produced by wildfires from the Late Devonian into the Carboniferous indicates increasing oxygen levels,...