Ocean oxygen loss, not just mercury pollution, can trigger toxic methylmercury blooms that threaten marine life and seafood ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an essential nutrient—sulfur—is in short supply.

Researchers are exploring how GI health, from the infant microbiome to adult digestive disorders, may influence the brain in people with ADHD.

Western modernization has triggered an “internal climate crisis” in the human gut. An ecological upheaval marked by ...

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in ...

Drugs taken years—even decades—ago can leave lasting imprints on the gut microbiome, reshaping the community of microbes long ...

Deep below the surface of some of the planet’s northernmost wilderness, the soil and rock has been frozen for millions of years. It’s called permafrost, and in central Alaska just south of the Arctic ...

Urban trees are essential to the health of cities and their residents: they cool neighborhoods, filter pollution from the air ...

Microbes living with urban trees help them survive heat and pollution. Protecting these tiny organisms can make urban forests ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

Sustainable agriculture plays a key role in addressing global food security while concurrently preserving environmental ...