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Stanford scientists found that the global economy is likely to benefit from ambitious global warming limits established in the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement.
Sterols appearing in the rock record have been used to determine when and how eukaryotic algae came to dominate oceans. But those sterols could also have been produced by bacteria.
A wastewater treatment plant now under construction will be the largest to test a technology that reduces the cost of cleaning water. The key: bacteria that eschew oxygen while producing burnable methane.
