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Using mushrooms to clean oil spills in the Amazon

2014-04-16 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature Network: I've already explored how mushrooms could help clean up pollution in disaster zones like Haiti. Now a crowdfunded research project aims to put that principle to work in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where poorly managed oil exploration has created a legacy of polluted groundwater and toxic soils. Using native species that have been identified as being able to thrive in soils contaminated with hydrocarbons, the Amazon Mycorenewal Project (AMP) is hoping to create scalable solutions for breaking down oil...

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