very day, an increasing number of mineral particles are discharged to the natural environment from industry, agriculture, forest fires, river runoffs and other events, caused by climate change and human activity.
very day, an increasing number of mineral particles are discharged to the natural environment from industry, agriculture, forest fires, river runoffs and other events, caused by climate change and human activity.
As a result, the geochemistry in many environments like rivers, lakes and glaciers becomes disturbed. One of many possible disturbances is that the discharge will deliver electrically conductive particles to coastal environments of oceans, lakes and nearby glaciers.
Amelia-Elena Rotaru from University of Southern Denmark discovered in 2018, that electrically conductive particles (carbon-based chars or metal-based minerals) were required by certain partnerships between environmental microorganisms involved in methane emissions.
Read more at: University of South Denmark
