Scientists have recently discovered a newly recognized and threatening ocean event: marine darkwaves. According to Science ...

It is well documented that the Gulf Stream plays a pivotal role in the climate system through its transfer of heat, which ultimately supplies warmth to northern latitudes in the North Atlantic. What ...

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 ...

Life on Earth has long been understood to run on two main energy sources. One comes from sunlight, captured by photosynthesis. The other comes from chemical reactions, such as microbes feeding on ...

After ten years at renowned research institutions in the United States, biogeochemist Dr Viktoria Steck has accepted a position leading an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ...

A newly identified soil bacterium may help unlock cleaner ways to recycle carbon dioxide and produce valuable chemicals using electricity. In a recent ...

URochester Earth and Environmental Science professor and researcher Dr. Thomas Weber has led multiple, intricate research undertakings on biogeochemical cycles in the world’s oceans. Throughout this ...

However, ditches and their surrounding landscape can be managed (by farmers and landowners, for example) in ways that reduce ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

A newly identified soil bacterium may help unlock cleaner ways to recycle carbon dioxide and produce valuable chemicals using ...

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