A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Climate models are essential to predicting and addressing climate change, but can fail to adequately represent soil microbes, a critical player in ecosystem soil carbon sequestration that affects the ...

Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings, a study has found. When scientists introduced the microbes into the guts of mice to ...

A new study from Hong Kong reports that some of the microbes found in a range of urban environments are evolving to resist the cleaners we typically use to eliminate them. Just like humans, every city ...

The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately help ...

Little is known about the fate of PFAS in our environment, but new research finds that bacteria in wastewater can degrade specific types of "forever chemicals." When you purchase through links on our ...