In a warming corner of Iceland, tiny soil microbes are quietly rewriting one of Earth’s most fundamental life-support systems ...

The Key to Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World The field of ecological research has long established that plant ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of ...

Scientists have discovered that cyanobacteria, microscopic organisms best known for driving harmful algal blooms, may play a ...

The effects of the steadily increasing amount of plastic in the ocean are complex and not yet fully understood. Scientists have now shown for the first time that the uptake of microplastics by ...

Groundwater is considered the largest reservoir of liquid freshwater on Earth and a habitat for complex microbial communities that drive essential biogeochemical cycles. Until now, the role of viruses ...

Nature’s basic rhythms, from the timing of blooms to the pulsing of ocean currents, have long acted like a planetary engine, converting sunlight, nutrients and water into the living world we depend on ...