A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...

Despite this, Wallace Broecker, Biosphere’s science adviser under Columbia who is often described as the grandfather of climate science, described one occasion when a peer reviewer declined to ...

This is not science fiction, but the mysterious realm of the deep biosphere: a hidden universe where microbes not only survive, but flourish, rewriting the very rules of life as we know it.

Microbial communities usually show a pattern where only a few species are highly abundant, while the majority are rare and make up the “rare biosphere.” For instance, a liter of seawater may ...

Peter Troch is Biosphere 2 science director and the principal investigator of the Landscape Evolution Observatory. He is a professor in the department of hydrology and water resources at the UA.

A new study predicts Earth's oxygen will vanish in a billion years. Toho University researchers used NASA models for this finding. The aging sun will ...

A modeling study shows that global warming will make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.