One of the biggest risks involved in environmental clean-up tasks is the threat of unintended consequences. Often, the addition of synthetic chemicals intended to neutralize or prevent the spread of contaminants results in crucial elements of the biological web being negatively affected, sometimes severely. In almost every case, natural clean-up processes provide a practical way to eliminate the threat of … Read More
Resurrecting the Food Web
“You don’t clean up water in hopes of resurrecting the food web – you resurrect the food web in order to clean up water”. Bruce Kania What does this mean? “Resurrecting the food web” means to restore bio-complexity to the aquatic environment, starting from the very base of life – microbes. Microbes gather together to form biofilm, which becomes a … Read More