Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...
Some make you sick, while others help keep you healthy. But microbes' influence stretches far beyond human bodies. These astonishingly complex organisms regulate the health of forests, oceans and ...
Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...
Researchers analyzed 59 years of data to show that adding bacteria to desert sand can rapidly create new soil.
Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...
Many alpine ecosystems are undergoing vegetation degradation because of global change, which is affecting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. The ecological consequences of alpine pioneer ...
Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.
In the study, "Microbial Ecosystems and Ecological Driving Forces in the Deepest Ocean Sediments," published in Cell, researchers conducted large-scale metagenomic and 16S rRNA gene amplicon ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest ...
Scientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced through geological processes like radiolysis and serpentinization.
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