Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of soybeans and one of the reasons is the incorporation of bio-inputs, microorganisms ...

There's no such thing as benign neglect. From the lawn to the roof, there are dozens of ways you can turn your home into a ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The ...

Scientists discovered a new phylum of bacteria in the Earth’s Critical Zone which was repsonsible for supporting life, that could help conservation.

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

For the last three months fungi, worms and weeds took centre stage at Somerset House alongside microbes and bacteria.

Coliform bacteria exist in the digestive tracts of animals and are found in animal feces. The bacteria can also be found in ...

Dozens of hippopotamuses died as a result of anthrax poisoning at the oldest national park in Africa. A spokesperson ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...