Arsenic in the News
OUR GROUP IN THE NEWS
Arsenic Bioremediation - Interview with Joanne Santini
http://www.media.apagemedia.com/post/Removing-Arsenic-from-Groundwater-by-Eating-It.aspx
Articles linked with work/people in our lab:
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/Canada/Sept.0808.2.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080907211950.htm
EUROPEAN NEWS
ITALY
Arsenic contamination leads to water ban north of Rome
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GERMANY
GREECE
Protest in Greece against Canadian goldmine project
NORTH AMERICAN NEWS
CANADA
Yellowknife arsenic cleanup costs soar
USA
U.S. Geological Survey scientists based in California have discovered bacteria that photosynthesise using compounds of arsenic, rather than
water, have been discovered in the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in
California.
The original study:
T.R. Kulp, S.E. Hoeft, M. Asao, M.T. Madigan, J.T. Hollibaugh, J.C.
Fisher, J.F. Stolz, C.W. Culbertson, L.G. Miller, R.S. Oremland, Arsenic(III) Fuels Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Hot Spring Biofilms from Mono Lake, California, Science, 321 (2008) 967-970. click here
Ron Oremland and his team of colleagues have published their recent work in Science.
They show that arsenate can be found in cellular components thought to only contain phosphate.
You can find the full text of the paper
here.
Dr. Ron Oremland
gave a talk at NASA HQ, where
he gave an overview
of his significant contribution to our understanding of
arsenic and microbes as well as showing some of the details
from their recent study.
ASIAN NEWS
Arsenic sinks to new depths: Recent article in Nature describing the magnitiude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its effects.
INDIA
Arsenic alarm in Sahebganj's villages
NEPAL
Arsenic found in 1500 tube-wells in Kanchanpu, Nepal
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