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.

About 20 years ago, the late Thomas Gold, in his landmark concept paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, postulated that a "deep, hot ...

Scientists have successfully used bioacoustics to regenerate coral reefs. A citizen science movement has sprung up: crowdsourcing data, taking soundwalks, and tuning in on apps like Orcasound that ...