An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...
Many of the microbes living in bark can live off various gases. This is a process recently coined as “aerotrophy”, as in “air ...
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
The bottom of the Gowanus Canal is not, strictly speaking, a hospitable environment. It’s covered in a thick layer of contaminated sediment, the product of more than 150 years of industrial pollution ...
The bottom of the Gowanus Canal is not, strictly speaking, a hospitable environment. It’s covered in a thick layer of contaminated sediment, the product of more than 150 years of industrial pollution ...
Image: A CU-Boulder-led team has discovered some rare, primitive microorganisms on high volcanoes in South America that may be fueled by drifting gases in the region rather than photosynthesis. (Image ...
Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...