Fungus Could Be a Fix for Uranium Pollution
Date: 12.5.2008
**Uranium pollution** from high-tech armor and munitions is one of the dangerous legacies of the wars in the Balkans and Iraq. But a naturally occurring **fungus** might help combat the spread of that pollution into local ecosystems. The fungus **transforms the uranium into a stable form** that shouldn't work its way into the food chain, a new study shows.
"Science":[ http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/505/2?etoc]
