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Ancient methane is escaping from beneath Arctic glaciers as their beds thaw
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1027+ words) Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what people emit. A glacier melts from the top, and the water runs off in rivers barely above freezing....
Antarctica is home to a treasure trove of microbes found nowhere else on the planet
4+ day, 15+ min ago (21+ words) Biologists have uncovered a unique ensemble of Arthrobacter in Antarctic soil that are unlike microbes found anywhere else on the planet....
Taking water samples from a glacial river on Svalbard
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (52+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Taking water samples from a glacial river on Svalbard Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release New study raises concerns about climate feedback loop as melting Arctic glaciers flush ancient methane from rocks…...
Forty-five years studying plant silicon and phytoliths: a personal
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....
Hidden Fungi Beneath Michigan: A Group of Scientists Unveil a Vast Underground Ecosystem Millions of Years Old
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (631+ words) Hundreds of meters below the surface of Michigan, United States, there exists a practically invisible ecosystem, without light and isolated for millions of years. There, scientists detected a hidden community of fungi, much more abundant and diverse than expected. The…...
These microbes in Antarctica don’t live anywhere else
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (534+ words) Notably, these are specific microbes, not all microbes in Antarctica. But it shows that some life in Antarctica can be different from the rest of the world. The researchers published the new peer-reviewed findings in Proceedings of the National Academy…...
Monash Researchers Find Antarctic Microbes Actively Swapping Genes To Survive On Trace Gases
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (653+ words) Microbes living in Antarctic desert soils are far from dormant. New research led by scientists at Monash University has found that bacteria in some of the continent’s harshest environments are frequently acquiring genetic material from neighbouring organisms, including distantly related…...
RIKEN Microbial Library Reveals Hidden CO2-fixing Life
1+ week, 1+ day ago (211+ words) Approximately 300 of the 6,700 microbial strains analyzed at the RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC) in Tsukuba possess genes involved in CO2 fixation. RIKEN JCM staff collect and store microbial strains discovered and cultured by microbiologists from around the world, providing a unique…...
Researchers find 'zombie-ant fungus' hiding in moss far from ant graveyards
1+ week, 1+ day ago (696+ words) "The fungus is present in mosses that no infected ant ever bit." A study in Brazil's Amazon rainforest found the so-called zombie-ant fungus in mosses, even in samples taken far from clusters of dead, infected ants known as ant graveyards....
Archaea as "flexitarians": ammonia-oxidizing microbes also feed on amino acids
1+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...