Planet Earth
There are 19 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Microbes".
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- 1. Securing the UK's natural carbon storage
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The UK's spectacular scenery attracts millions of visitors from around the world. Iconic heath, peatland and sea lochs don't just look beautiful though. They are shaped by the changing climate.
- 2. Secrets of sudden death of 200,000 antelopes in Central Asia
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In May 2015 the sudden death of more than 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan baffled the world.
- 3. Our changing Arctic
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The Barents Sea is a wild, dark, stormy old ocean. Who would want to be out there on a ship in January?
- 4. Antibiotic resistance must be tackled in the field
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We could be encouraging antimicrobial resistance by overusing antibiotics but other factors may also be at play. We spoke to researchers going beyond the clinic to understand how drug-resistance builds up in the bacteria in our sewers and rivers.
- 5. What's eating you
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These days we can get a prescription for many infections, but what happens when you have more than one at a time? Emily Griffiths explains how we can look at co-infection in a way that could help us devise more effective treatments.
- 6. Podcast: Of sewage and superbugs
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This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Elizabeth Wellington and Greg Amos of the University of Warwick explain how sewage treatment could be helping spread highly drug-resistant bacteria around the environment.
- 7. Sewage treatment contributes to antibiotic resistance
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Wastewater treatment plants could be unwittingly helping to spread antibiotic resistance, say scientists.
- 8. Podcast: How an urban meadow is boosting biodiversity
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This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Helen Hoyle of the University of Sheffield and Jim Harris from Cranfield University describe what a strip of land in Luton, southeast England, is doing for urban biodiversity.
- 9. Mission to 'Mars'
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Some scientists may dream of the chance to pursue their research on another planet. That opportunity isn't a reality just yet, but PhD student Michaela Musilova got the next best thing - a simulated mission to Mars.
- 10. Breakthrough in understanding swarming potato blight spores
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Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how microbial spores, which caused the infamous Irish potato famine are so successful at infecting plants.
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