The experiments offer new insights into one of the “biggest unknowns” in how the climate will change in the years to come ...

Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from extinction, a group that might not seem like it ...

Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

Groundwater commonly contains methane, but the amount of this important greenhouse gas that can escape to surface waters or ...

The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse ...

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age ...

Researchers have resurrected ancient microbes that lay dormant in the Alaskan permafrost for about 40,000 years. Permafrost ...

At the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research facility in central Alaska, a unique tunnel descends underground. Measuring over ...

A resilient gut microbe, Bacillus subtilis, has survived the extreme conditions of space launch and reentry - great news for ...

A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

Ancient microbes frozen in Arctic permafrost are waking up as the Earth warms, releasing gases that could speed up climate ...