Biotech Today
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Factual Involvement of Microbes in Climate Change

Department of Biotechnology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi-284128

*Corresponding Author Email: chauhan_vsbiotech@rediffmail.com

Online published on 10 March, 2015.

Abstract

Amazing but true that humankind has only relatively recently started to alter the composition of the atmosphere and the energy balance of the planet, micro-organisms have been dictating global climate for billions of years. Microbes play an important role as both users and producers of greenhouse gases. Both natural and human-induced fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are dominated by microbiology.

Keywords

Nitrogen fixing climente change, microbes