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Editorial
. 2025 Jan 21;10(1):e0141624.
doi: 10.1128/msystems.01416-24. Epub 2024 Nov 11.

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

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Editorial

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

Raquel Peixoto et al. mSystems. .
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Conflict of interest statement

J.A.G. is a Scientific Advisory Board Member for Oath Inc. The other authors declare no competing interests.

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Corals and climate change. Examples of the same healthy (top panels), bleached (bottom left), and dead (bottom right) corals before (top panels) and after (bottom panels) being affected by heatwaves caused by climate change. Photos by Morgan Bennett-Smith.

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