A study reveals the underground interactions between fungi and oomycetes in twenty Andalusian dehesas, wooded pasturelands typical of the Iberian Peninsula, making it possible to identify the role of ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

A newly-formed group of scientists will be fighting for the survival of species — the smallest ones on the planet. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched a species ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

Microbial ecology in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region represents a rapidly evolving frontier at the intersection of environmental science, ...

Microbes in our gut can have a profound impact on our health, but research is showing that those surrounding us in our environment—what’s known as the natural environmental microbiome—can have a big ...

A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

Impacts of biological amendments, including waste-derived amendments that underpin soil health and agricultural ...