By Seth Millstein for Sentient Climate. Broadcast version by Isobel Charle for Washington News Service reporting for the ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

Marine food webs are highly complex. Until now, researchers have been unable to understand exactly how they are affected by ...

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 ...

Industrial fishing removes large amounts of nutrients like carbon and phosphorus. This disrupts marine food webs.

Galamsey, the local term for illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, continues to pose a serious threat to the nation's ...

As illegal mining alters the riverbeds and drains life from these once-thriving arteries, the need for sustainable management becomes urgent. To preserve rivers as living, life-giving entities, we ...

Reports, Čačković et al., “Selective heterotopic bacteria can selfishly process polysaccharides in freshwater lakes.” (25)00186-X ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules ...