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World Service,08 Sep 2005,22 mins

Soil Microbes involved in Global Warming

Science In Action

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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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