How can a cheap scanner reveal hidden signals in living soil?
Soil looks like one brown background, but water, minerals, organic matter, roots, fungi, bacteria, and decaying...
How can we use environmental DNA detection to keep invasive mollusks out of Lake Tahoe?
All organisms shed DNA into the environment (eDNA). Research suggests that detecting aquatic invasive species...
Surviving the seasons: Photosynthesis in desert mosses across two desert ecosystems
Biological soil crusts—communities of mosses, lichens, and microbes—stabilize soils, retain water, and regulate...
Underground solutions for aboveground climate challenges: leveraging subterranean microbial processes for GHG removal
Caves are known to function as massive sink of atmospheric methane. However, the potential for artificial...
Worms at Work: Scoping Natural Carbon Sequestration at Scale
For centuries, scientists noted earthworms' exploits as ecosystem engineers. Recent research shows the feasibility...
Biomapping of Tree-based Atmospheric Methane Removal (TAMR) for Technological Development
Tree surfaces can be an effective approach for AMR, although foundational information is lacking. Here...
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