When we talk about climate change, we tend to focus on its more tangible effects: extreme heat, ocean warming, melting glaciers, and so on. But anywhere from 500 meters to a few kilometers beneath our ...

Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon sequestration. The impact of human activities -- such as greenhouse gas ...

Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 25 (June 21, 2022), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Subsurface environments host diverse microorganisms in ...

Car headlights illuminate the steam plume from Excelsior Geyser at Yellowstone. Image by Neal Herbert, National Park Service, CC3.0. Car headlights illuminate the steam plume from Excelsior Geyser at ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are thriving in ...

In the tantalizing quest to find extraterrestrial life beyond our own solar system, or at least beyond Earth, we often forget the myriad ways in which life has evolved within our own planet’s deep ...

Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine. At this site almost 3 km deep beneath the surface, the researchers can access one ...