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Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean (www.sciencedaily.com)

submitted 8 months ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/earthscience@mander.xyz

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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It could always burn though. And in fact burned easier, with a higher O2 level in the atmosphere. And while bacteria did figure out how to break down some wood molecules, fungi evolved and are the more important wood digesters.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 point 8 months ago

Thank you. I always hear about the fungi and not the bacteria...

Great reminder about the fires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous in the section titled "Atmospheric oxygen levels".

For example: the increasing occurrence of charcoal produced by wildfires from the Late Devonian into the Carboniferous indicates increasing oxygen levels,...

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