Tag: Bacteria

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  CDC Warns Against 'Fish Pedicures'

  Agency cites the risk of dangerous skin and soft-tissue infections for people with open sores, skin cuts, and underlying medical conditions.

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  Iron-Eating Magnetized Bacteria Could Make Faster Computers

  A research team has created magnetic bacteria that could form the basis of high speed nano computers.

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  Dickson Despommier on the Rise of the Vertical Farm (Podcast)

  Science of science fiction? Dickson Despommier, the father of vertical farming, discusses what the future of agriculture might look like.

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  How to Make Compost Tea & Why You Should

  When I posted a video on how to make compost extractions, and later on how to make compost tea it awakened my interest in this lesser-known subset of composting

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  Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Explained at a Third Grade Level

  If you are still wondering just exactly where antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" come from, and how we have contributed to creating them, then this story-book slideshow on Development of Antibiotic Resistant S. Aureus will

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  Compost Poetry and the "Magic at Work in the Rotten Stench"

  Compost is a funny thing. For the uninitiated, or the uninterested, it is at best a clever form of recycling, and at worst a disgusting, smelly and unpleasant alternative to sending your trash to

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  How to Brew Compost Tea (Videos)

  Whether it's discussing how worm compost suppresses plant disease, or getting a sneak peak at industrial-scale composting, I've talked a lot about both methods and usage of compost here on TreeHugger. But when I posted on a

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  Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Slideshow)

  With so many products -- from hand soap to dish detergent -- boasting about their antibacterial properties, it's easy to think that all bacteria are bad for you.

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  Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  With so many products -- from hand soap to dish detergent -- boasting about their antibacterial properties, it's easy to think that all bacteria are bad for you. But the world of bacteria isn't so black and white: some bacteria help, some hurt, and some

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  Make Your Compost Go Further - Compost Extraction (Video)

  Whether I am talking about making compost as a form of animal husbandry, or musing on the analogy of compost as a yogurt for the soil, I am known for being more than a little bit geeky about the life in my rotted biomass.

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  Compost is Like Yogurt for the Soil - Probiotics in the Garden

  I've been reading a lot about compost recently and one thing keeps bothering me. Almost every article refers to this magical substance as a "natural fertilizer", and on one level it

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  You Are 10% Human. 90% Bacteria. (Video)

  Earlier this week, I wrote a post wondering whether we should think of composting as animal husbandry—given the vast array of living organisms that exist in a compost heap. Now I am wondering whether the same term

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  Rebranding Poop as a Resource - The Poop Project

  Whether looking at the selective flush and letting it mellow or recycling our poop for sustainable farming, it's no secret that I believe rethinking the way we handle our bodily waste—both human and animal—is

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  Ecomachines Use Plants and Animals for Low Impact Water Treatment (Video)

  Dr John Todd's work creating living machines, or ecomachines, as a form of natural water treatment has long been of interest to TreeHugger. Back in 2005 Collin interviewed Dr Todd about his views on ecological design,

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  Outdoor Bacteria Can Make You Smarter, and Happier

  Getting some outdoor time is not only good for the soul, it's probably good for the mind. Research from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, suggests that exposure to a natural soil bacterium called Mycobacterium vaccae can increase learning behavior.

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  Scientists Creating 'Extremophile' Super Bug to Make Fuel

  What's more extreme than an extremophile? How about a new and improved version of the bug, a bacteria that thrives

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  Mold May Help Design Future Transportation Routes

  In 2000, Toshiyuki Nakagaki won an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating the 'problem solving' ability of mold. His experiment tested a slime mold, Physarum

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  Researchers Study Polar Bear Poo To Find Out About Superbugs

  Researchers went all the way up to the Arctic to study the droppings of polar bears who have little to no contact with humans in order to find out if the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs among animals are the