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… the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers … Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … revealed a striking capability of morel mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant … litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed … inhabit their frigid environment, Mock pointed out that as climate change warms polar waters, changes in trace metal …