Could miniscule organisms help the world meet its climate goals?
. These vents are located in shallow water, which means they are exposed to sunlight . All this has created the perfect environment for the evolution of microbes that use CO2 as a food source.
Together with a team of researchers from Harvard and Cornell universities in the US and the University of Palermo in Sicily, Italy, Tierney isolated a microbe that converted CO2 into biomass faster than other known cyanobacteria. A study outlining the results will be published later this year. Cyanobacteria are a type of bacteria that use photosynthesis to obtain energy, capturing carbon in the process, and the new strain is"one of the fastest growing cyanobacteria… ever reported", says Tierney.
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