Microbial biodiversity plays a critical role in the preservation and deterioration of cultural heritage (CH) objects. Museums ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 10, 2025) Published earlier this year, a review of over 1,700 studies in Nature Communications finds pesticides affect a diverse range of nontarget organisms and ...

For complex situations like these a return to foundations can be clarifying. To improve biodiversity, a perspective grounded in peer-reviewed science — based on essential foundations required for life ...

In Part I, threats to human health from the ocean were defined and identified as areas that would benefit from greater interaction between the oceanographic and medical communities. For example, ...

A higher diversity of the gut bacteria could be associated with a greater hormonal and stress reactivity, a study has found.