Microbial life thrives in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Bacteria, archaea, and other microorganisms inhabit ...

We use them to clean the dishes we eat off, but your kitchen sponge is a damp, crumb-filled environment that is perfect for bacteria to thrive in. Is a washing up brush better?

The tundra giving way to larch trees changes the ... and among the hibernated pathogens there may be unknown viruses and bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The melting of permafrost carries ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living ... robust emissions of greenhouse gases from tundra and forested areas during spring, summer ...

Many species of bacteria know how to rough it out. Some thrive deep within the Earth's crust, or inside boiling hydrothermal vents, and others even call frozen tundra their home. Ask most bacteria ...