Microbes hold the key

Bacteria could play a crucial role in restoring fertile prairies in North America

Metals blunt drugs

How heavy metals foster antibiotic resistance

Gut factor

Why people in the West are more prone to allergies?

Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

Bacteria feed on pollutants in sewage, kill odour, but are they a complete solution?

Parkinson’s trigger

Chemicals released from mouldy walls could cause Parkinson’s

Save nature, do nothing

In some cases, doing nothing is the way to preserve ecology

Fabric filter

Cotton sari filtration, heating kill most bacteria in water

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Wake-up call

A fungus could wipe out American bats

Agent B483

Bacteria in mangrove forests can eliminate mosquitoes

A peek into the world of fungi

First-of-its-kind global study shows soil fungi can directly impact climate change

In hot waters

Warming may push important marine bacteria to extinction

Heavy damage

A nickel for oxygen

When will coliform matter?

India fails to notify standards for treated sewage

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Superbug: India gets bugged

Government downplays threat from drug-resistant bacteria

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Faceless workers

With a trace of Molybdenum

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Dying wings

'Microbes can be patented'

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