Fossils of fungi in Arctic Canada date back to anywhere from 890 million to more than 1 billion years ago, according to a study published today (May 22) in Nature. The previously known earliest fossil ...

offered an alternative approach that uses strains of bacteria and fungi isolated from alpine and Arctic environments to partially break down some biodegradable plastics at 15°C. 1 During prior ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil ...

Fungal community profiling revealed an associated decrease in presumably ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi. The abiotic conditions (low to subzero temperatures, anoxia) and the reduced abundance of ...