Timmermann et al. (2025): Harnessing microbes to weather native silicates in agricultural soils for scalable carbon dioxide removal

Tania Timmermann, Christopher Yip, Yun-Ya Yang, Kimberly A. Wemmer, Anupam Chowdhury, Daniel Dores, Taichi Takayama, Sharon Nademanee, Bjorn A. Traag, Kazem Zamanian, Bernardo González, Daniel O. Breecker, Noah Fierer, Eric W. Slessarev, Gonzalo A. Fuenzalida-Meriz, IN: Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70216

Anthropogenic carbon emissions contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect, resulting in global warming and climate change. Thus, addressing this critical issue requires innovative and comprehensive solutions. Silicate weathering moderates atmospheric CO₂ levels over geological time, but it occurs too slowly to counteract anthropogenic emissions effectively. Here, the authors show that the microorganism Bacillus subtilis strain MP1 promotes silicate weathering across different experimental setups with various levels of complexity.

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