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Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 61: Jan-Feb 1989 |
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Gaia At Work Under The Hudson
"Oxygen-starved bacteria working in sediment beneath the Hudson River are transforming toxic PCB compounds into less dangerous forms, raising hopes of a significant easing of a major PCB cleanup problem nationwide," researchers said yesterday.
"The resulting types of PCBs do not accumulate in living tissue, a government scientist said."
Researchers at the University of Michigan stated that it appeared that these bacteria had evolved specifically to attack PCBs.
(Anonymous; "Hudson Bacteria Transform PCBs into Safer Forms," Baltimore Sun, November 4, 1988.)
Comment. Thus does Gaia act so as to protect humanity from its own mistakes!