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Tag: fungi

Fungi growing on mossy tree. Credit: Jesse Bauer/Unsplash Biodiversity and Conservation Citizen Science Ecology Environment SciStarter Blog 

Fungi Bioblitz Follow-Up

November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 Science Connectedcitizen science, ecology, environment, fungi

Did you participate in the largest ever fungi bioblitz? Read about the citizen science push cataloging fungi diversity in North America!

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North American FungiQuest. Image credit: thinkfungi.org/(C BY-NC-ND 2.0 Citizen Science SciStarter Blog 

The Largest-Ever Fungi Bioblitz Is Here

September 2, 2022November 22, 2022 Science Connectedcitizen science, fungi, mushrooms

Participate in the Great North American FungiQuest September 15 to October 15 by taking photos of local fungi on your phone!

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Spotlight: Environment

A wheat field in the Mpika District, Muchinga Province, Zambia, showing symptoms of wheat blast during the outbreak of March 2018. Credit: Batiseba Tembo, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute; license CC by 4.0 Biology Botany Ecology Environment 

Genomics Takes On Crop Disease

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 Science Connectedagriculture, crops, ecology, environment, genome, pathogens, plants
Genomics opens the way for scientists to track where and which plants are affected most by rapidly spreading pathogens.
Earth Day 2020 Environment 

Earth Day: Get Informed, Get Involved

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 Science Connectedenvironmental health
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. Learn more and find out how to get involved in an Earth...
A stream filling a glass of water. Water quality may be headed for a rise as scientists work to develop new technology that uses bacteria to detect harmful heavy metals in water.

Water Quality Monitoring by Bacterial Biosensors

March 20, 2023March 14, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, heavy metals, water contamination, water pollution, water testing
People putting plastic bottles in recycling bin.

Bacteria Has Natural Capacity to Recycle Plastics

March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, plastic pollution, recycling
Researchers have developed a recycling system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products–using just the energy from the sun. Image credit: University of Cambridge

Sunlight Powers Recycling of Carbon Dioxide and Plastic

February 15, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedbiofuel, carbon dioxide, plastic pollution, recycling, solar power
Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide. Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute For Marine Microbiology

How Brown Algae Mucus Combats Carbon Dioxide

February 10, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedalgae, carbon dioxide, carbon fixing, climate change, seawater
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