Scientists discover how ocean bacterium turns carbon into fuel (w/ Video)
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 14:14
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. We hear this mantra time and again. When it comes to carbon‹the "Most Wanted" element in terms of climate change‹nature has got reuse and recycle covered. However, it's up to us to reduce. Scientists at Harvard Medical School are trying to meet this challenge by learning more about the carbon cycle, that is, the process by which carbon moves from the atmosphere into plants, oceans, soils, the earth's crust, and back into the atmosphere again.