Rethink on Groundwater Cleanup by Microbes
researchers have discovered that micro-organisms that help break down contaminants under the soil can actually get too hot for their own good.
While investigating ways of cleaning up groundwater contamination, scientists examined how microbes break down contaminants under the soil’s surface and found that subsurface temperatures associated with microbial degradation can become too hot for the microbes to grow and consume the groundwater contaminants.
