Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

New research shows that warming alone won’t make soils release extra carbon - microbes need the right nutrients to fuel emissions.

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics ...

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka. These wetlands—formed from layers and layers of decaying ...

Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause ...

Schematic diagram of the role of the circadian clock of plants affecting the composition and ecological function of bacterial ...

Higher temperatures combined with added carbon – and added nutrients – led to higher carbon dioxide levels released from the ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines ...

Researchers have developed a new way to extract large DNA fragments directly from soil in order to piece together the genomes ...

HIGH INTENSITY WILDFIRES THAT BURN FOR DAYS IN THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THIS SPRING LEFT THE PRISTINE FOREST SCARRED. NOW, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS SAY WHAT HAPPENED UNDER THE GROUND MAY HAVE AN ...

Researchers are paying close attention to how fertilizers change tiny features within soil where carbon can be stored ...