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  • scientists based in California have discovered bacteria that photosynthesise using compounds of arsenic, rather than water, have been discovered in the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California.

The original study:
T.R. Kulp, S.E. Hoeft, M. Asao, M.T. Madigan, J.T. Hollibaugh, J.C. Fisher, J.F. Stolz, C.W. Culbertson, L.G. Miller, R.S. Oremland, Arsenic(III) Fuels Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Hot Spring Biofilms from Mono Lake, California, Science, 321 (2008) 967-970. click

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Arsenic sinks to new depths:Ìý RecentÌýdescribing the magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its effects.