A Bioremediation fairy tale
Interested in microbial bioremediation? Want to teach your children about it? You’re in luck! Follow the link here to read a children’s story about a small bacterial population who uses the power of plasmids to remediate their island from petroleum pollution!
Pseudomona and the Tale of Bioremediation follows the story of Psuedomona, the daughter of the leader of a population of bacteria, who must travel a great distance to find Psueodmonas putida, the fabled microbe who eats petroleum. Will they be able to save the island together? Find out here!
We may not realize how much we change the environment that we live in. People introduce a large amount of waste and pollutants into the world. We all are aware that we produce trash and that it go into the landfills, however have you ever considered how the wastewater that you produce is cleaned and put into the rivers and oceans around you, or how taking medications can introduce new chemicals into the environment? What about how heavy metals produced from factories and petroleum products are dealt with? Below is our interactive and informative thinglink to learn more.