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Lipid Biomarkers Reveal Dominance Of Aerobic Methanotrophy In A Continental Serpentinizing System

Sources and sinks of methane within an advanced serpentinization-influenced system were investigated at the Coast Range Ophiolite Microbial Observatory (CROMO) in Lower Lake, California. Subsurface water-rock reactions at CROMO contribute […]

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Gulf Of Mexico Blue Hole Harbors High Levels Of Novel Microbial Lineages

Exploration of oxygen-depleted marine environments has consistently revealed novel microbial taxa and metabolic capabilities that expand our understanding of microbial evolution and ecology.

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How Microbes Use Earth’s Ancient Carbon

Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor release carbon dioxide that is many million years old. This old carbon originates from the Earth’s interior, and it escapes either directly from the […]

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Recent Microbial Evolutionary Insights From Metagenomics

Microorganisms have profoundly shaped Earth’s biological and geological history, from the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis to present-day global biogeochemical cycles.

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Modelling The Long-term Impacts Of Artificial Warming On The Martian Water Cycle And Surface Ice Distribution

Recent papers by Ansari et al. (2024, Science Advances 10, eadn4650) and Richardson et al. (2025, arXiv eprint 2504.01455) have suggested that global warming of the Martian surface (‘terraforming’) by […]

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Oxygen Reductase Origin Followed The Great Oxidation Event And Terminated The Lomagundi Excursion

The history of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen is a cornerstone of evolutionary biology. While unequivocal evidence for an increase in atmospheric O2 marks the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) roughly 2.4 billion […]

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EAI Seminar: Deep Microbial Colonization During Impact-generated Hydrothermal Circulation Of Impact Structures (Video)

Henrik Drake, Professor, Linnaeus University, SwedenTuesday 10th February 2016, 16:00 CET

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A Whole-planet Model Of The Earth Without Life For Terrestrial Exoplanet Studies

As the only known habitable (and inhabited) planet in the universe, Earth informs our search for life elsewhere. Future telescopes like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will soon look for […]

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