
Microbes
Kitchen sponges are bacteria’s dream home
Sponges are favorite spots for bacteria, partly because of the mixed-housing environment that the cleaner-uppers offer microbes.
By Anna Gibbs
Sponges are favorite spots for bacteria, partly because of the mixed-housing environment that the cleaner-uppers offer microbes.
Instead of warming the climate, methane gas can be collected to help farmers. Along the way, it may also save some fish.
Restoring the missing species can help undo human-caused problems by aiding forests, slowing climate change and reducing wildfires.
The amount of food that some whales eat and then poop out suggests these animals have a powerful influence over ocean ecosystems.
This “relict ecosystem” that’s more than thousands of years old moved inland due to warming and a rise in sea levels.
Check out five wild facts you may not know about a familiar animal: the elephant.
Middle-grade campers team up with ecologists at Denver University to show that streetlights boost the growth of a reviled invasive species.
A cloned ferret named Elizabeth Ann brings genetic diversity to a species that nearly went extinct in the 1980s.
Studies now show that most wildfires don’t kill microbes. That’s fueling worries about what risks these smoke hitchhikers might pose to people.
New data haven’t shown that schools pose a big coronavirus risk to kids and their families, despite fears that they might.