Bioremediation: How biology heals the earth naturally | Shaily Mahendra | TEDxManhattanBeach

Dr. Shaily Mahendra explains how we can use bioremediation - the earth's natural process for restoring itself, to heal environmental degradation of the earth caused by humans and industry. Dr. Shaily Mahendra develops novel environmental applications of nanomaterials, monitoring tools, and technologies for bioremediation of water contaminants resulting from industrial, military, agricultural, and energy production activities. Currently a prestigious award-winning Professor in the UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shaily teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of environmental engineering and microbiology. She seeks solutions to two of our biggest challenges — clean water and clean energy.

[uditamishra]

I m so happy to know that we are moving towards a generation were we respect all forms of life as well as bacteria i m an biotechnology student this makes me happy

[dami]

This talk made me feel so hopeful. Thank you

[AsmaKhan-idpt]

One more best thing that I have learnt about 1'4 dioxanine that is present in our daily products..And bioremediation is best treatment in which microbes provide medicinefor sucessful future..

[AsmaKhan-idpt]

Bioremediation is the best process and its save to use just because of biotechonology we are able to introduce new bacteria and microbioms .we are able to use many method to remove toxicity from environment...

[anraiduine]

Haha!! Microbes are goddamn miracles, I wouldn't be surprised if we provided enough funding and manpower to research in bioremediation we could eventually come up with a catalogue of microbes (or cocktails of microbes) as well as protocols/technlogies for their application, which would allow us to take care of nearly every significant form of anthropogenic pollution, from heavy metals, through ecotoxic synthetic compounds and bacterial or viral pathogens, and who knows, maybe even radioactivity. Nature has all the solutions!! We just gotta ask the right questions.

[kuchbhicontent]

Excelent talk about bioremediation

..also spark some creative thaoughts in you to practically implify the concept of bioremediation !

[Piccolo_Sun]

this is our as humans but we must do it in a different way

[viki_luch]

Can I go to UCLA on engineering program afresh MS in Epidemiology (Moscow) ?

[harishkiran]

Nature is not the answer to dumbness and arrogance.

[litplumber]

Be grateful for corona. Listen to her.

[kevineddlemon]

She lost me at Silent Spring and Rachel Carter. She didn't mention the tens of thousands of deaths as a result of the ban of DDT by the EPA. Btw the WHO reinstated DDT in the early 2000s to battle malaria.
I guess we have to ignore all the deaths to protect the "Mother of Environmentalism"