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Soil Microbes involved in Global Warming

Global warming is speeding up the activity of soil microbes

Global warming is speeding up the activity of soil microbes so much so that the loss of carbon from soils could off-set reduction goals in the use of fossil fuels. First results of the Deep Impact mission to discover more about the composition of the comet Tempel 1 reports more organic molecules. Analysing the pigments used to illluminate the Book of Kells in the year 800.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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