August 2025 - Microbes for Carbon Capture
This special issue features content from across The Microbiologist on the ways microbiology can contribute to carbon capture, sequestration, and degration. The issue will be updated across the month of August 2025 and include news, features, careers and opinion. If you would like to feature your work in this issue, please contact the editorial team.
News in Carbon capture
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Harnessing soil microbes to weather rock and fight climate change
Discover how Bacillus subtilis strain MP1 accelerates silicate weathering in agricultural soils, locking away 7.3 tonnes of CO2 per hectare annually through standard agricultural practices.
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Underground microbiology: help or hinderance for decarbonisation?
Can the activity of disturbed microbial communities affect industrial activities, for good or ill?
Carbon Capture in Careers
Microbes at work: Caliche’s journey in carbon capture
The groundbreaking potential of the forest microbiome
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Our special issue for September 2025 will be entitled Strategies for Sustainability. If you would like to feature your work in the next issue, please contact the editorial team. Access to previous special issues can be found here.