From Rivers to Bread: The Science of Resilience and Microbial Life
What can a damaged river landscape and a handful of sourdough starters teach us about resilience, adaptation, and the hidden life around us?
In this episode of The Gentle Inquiry, we travel from the Nechako Reservoir and the long process of environmental restoration in the territory of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation to the microscopic world of Fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis, one of the key bacteria behind traditional sourdough.
We explore how scientists study ecological recovery on a landscape scale—and genetic diversity, metabolism, and microbial relationships at a microscopic scale…
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