Methanotroph Commons » Marina Kalyuzhnaya http://methanotroph.org Fri, 09 May 2014 16:41:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 2013 Papers http://methanotroph.org/blog/348/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=348 http://methanotroph.org/blog/348/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:26:26 +0000 http://methanotroph.org/?p=348 …
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]]> We have a number of great papers published last year. Some of them  appeared in news (see below) last year.  Last year we learned that some methanotrophs are treasure-hunters seeking for rare earth metals [1,2],  and some of them use a very highly efficient biocatalysis [3]. The tiny methanomentalists did a great job in cleaning up after BP oil spill [4,5],  but they can not stop methane  emission from  shallow oceanic water  or thawing permafrost soils [6,7]. The methane level in atmosphere has been rising after a decade of little change [8].  Humans are trying to help  by creating new pathways for methane utilization [9,10,11].

I hope you enjoy the reading as much as I did. I look forward to your comments.

marina

1. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/surprising-metals-found-microbes

2. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/09/volcanic-bacteria-need-lanthanides

3. http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2013/12/10/best-of-the-journals-highly-efficient-methane-biocatalysis-revealed-in-a-methanotrophic-bacterium/

4. http://www.fondoemprendedores.fundacionrepsol.com/en/up-to-date/news/micro-battalion-purifies-seas

5.http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112818967/bacteria-found-gulf-consumes-crude-oil-040913/

6. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/25/us-methane-emissions-study-epa/3699735/

7. http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/twice-as-much-methane-escaping-arctic-seafloor-131125.htm

8. http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2013/09/19/arpa-e-awards-34m-in-rd-for-advanced-liquid-fuels-from-methane/

9. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6171/621.short

10. http://ccemc.ca

 

 

 

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