Category: Nature

A plant growing out of soil.

Can You Mine Metals with Plants?

The process of extracting metals from the soil by using certain types of plants called hyperaccumulators that can freely absorb and store metals in their tissues is known as phytoextraction or phytomining or biomining, which in this Geekswipe edition, you’ll be learning about.

Deep-sea organisms are affected by plastics too

Deep-Sea Organisms Are Affected by Plastics Too

Plastics are contaminating almost every ecosystem in this world. Following the findings of plastics around Antarctica, experiments from a study now have confirmed that microplastics are transferred into deep-sea organisms through their feeding methods. The...