U.S. News & World Report – The research being conducted by scientists with NOAA, Washington State University and U.S. Fish and Wildlife offers a promising solution to stormwater pollution, a major problem for Puget Sound and other streams and lakes in the nation. With pollution from industrial pipes closely regulated, cities and states are more often tackling stormwater runoff that results from everyday activities: oils from leaky cars, pesticides from lawns and other pollutants that wash off roads and sidewalks and into streams and lakes.
SPACE.com – “I always have been interested in possibly exotic life and creative adaptations of organisms to extreme environments,” said study co-author Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman. “Supercritical CO2 is often overlooked, so I felt that someone had to put together something on its biological potential.”