Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

The holobiont paradigm finally recognizes that macroorganism development and health, like all other natural ecosystems, are influenced by the diverse microbial communities they host. However, ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

The field of Environmental Science has recently turned its focus towards the pervasive issue of plastic pollution, ...

Using metagenomic sequencing across a realistic temperature gradient, researchers show that carcass decay triggers a surge in carbon-degradation ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment performance, and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. A new study shows ...