River Microbes to Reduce Global Warming

Dirty, contaminated rivers serve as immense sources of important microbes that can be used to fix the greenhouse gases, responsible for global warming. This was the message delivered by water microbiologist Kartika Senjarini of Jember University, Indonesia. In her talk on "The Development of Water Microbiology Based on Biotechnology to Overcome Environmental Problems", Senjarini emphasized that microbes from contaminated rivers can be genetically-engineered to enable them to perform many different desirable functions including fixing the greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide and methane. She has started experiments to achieve these ends using  bacterial isolates collected from the dirty and contaminated Bedadung River in Jember, Indonesia

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