//www.koonmotors.com/news/earth_climate/earth_science/ Earth science research and news. Read science articles on air quality, geology, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology and science and the environment. en-us Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:23:41 EDT Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:23:41 EDT 60 //www.koonmotors.com/images/scidaily-logo-rss.png//www.koonmotors.com/news/earth_climate/earth_science/ For more science news, visit ScienceDaily. //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703185543.htm Researchers found that the effects of climate change on the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events, like wildfires, could lead to massive increases in all three. Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:55:43 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703185543.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703133053.htm An El Niño event has officially begun. The climate phenomenon, which originates in the tropical Pacific and occurs in intervals of a few years will shape weather across the planet for the next year or more and give rise to various climatic extremes. El Niño-like conditions can also occur on longer time scales of decades or centuries. This has been shown to have occurred in the recent past. Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:30:53 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703133053.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703133026.htm 一个国际研究小组已经发现a subduction zone's age affects the ability for it to recycle water between the Earth's surface and its inner layers. The more mature the subduction zone, the bigger the water storage capacity. Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:30:26 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/07/230703133026.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230629193243.htm 受国际需求猛增,广泛areas of grasslands, and forests across South American plains have rapidly been converted to the production of annual crops, such as soybean and maize. This agricultural expansion has been taking place at a staggering rate of 2.1 million hectares a year. A new study shows how these shifts to annual crop agriculture, which relies on rainfall rather than irrigation, is also rapidly disrupting the water table across the large flat regions of the Pampas and Chaco plains and contributing to significantly increased risks of surface flooding. Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:32:43 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230629193243.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230629125729.htm Researchers demonstrate that sponges react to changes in their microbiome with extensive modifications in gene regulation. Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:57:29 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230629125729.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628201312.htm Scientists have wondered what happens to the organic and inorganic carbon that Earth's Pacific Plate carries with it as it slides into the planet's interior along the volcano-studded Ring of Fire. A new study suggests a notable amount of such subducted carbon returns to the atmosphere rather than traveling deep into Earth's mantle. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:13:12 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628201312.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628201257.htm Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions including the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary. This change has dire consequences for marine ecosystems and fisheries. To better predict what could happen in the future, researchers set out to answer the question: what controls the pathway of the Labrador Current? Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:12:57 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628201257.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628131038.htm Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D., leading the public to believe that scientists already know why, where, when and how long volcanoes will erupt. But a volcanologist said these fundamental questions remain a mystery. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:10:38 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628131038.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130502.htm Many factors influence where a landslide will occur, including the shape of the terrain, its slope and drainage areas, the material properties of soil and bedrock, and environmental conditions like climate, rainfall, hydrology and ground motion resulting from earthquakes. Geologists have developed a new technique that uses artificial intelligence to better predict where and why landslides may occur could bolster efforts to protect lives and property in some of the world's most disaster-prone areas. The new method improves the accuracy and interpretability of AI-based machine-learning techniques, requires far less computing power and is more broadly applicable than traditional predictive models. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:05:02 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130502.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130428.htm An international team has, for the first time, accurately determined the age of the East Anatolian fault, allowing geologists to learn more about its seismic history and tendency to produce earthquakes. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:04:28 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130428.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130358.htm Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have begun. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:03:58 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628130358.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628125214.htm An analysis of oxygen levels in Earth's oceans may provide some rare, good news about the health of the seas in a future, globally warmed world. A study analyzing ocean sediment shows that ocean oxygen levels in a key area were higher during the Miocene warm period, some 16 million years ago when the Earth's temperature was hotter than it is today. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:52:14 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230628125214.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627225145.htm 科学家工程师创造出一种更简单的方法study underwater topography. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:51:45 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627225145.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627191518.htm 一项新的研究探讨publi的战线c debate around a controversial energy technology which is heralded as 'critical to combating climate change' by its advocates and branded 'worse than coal' by its critics. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:15:18 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627191518.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627141942.htm As human-driven climate change amplifies natural disasters, hurricanes and typhoons stand to increase in intensity. Until now, there existed very few freely available computer models designed to estimate the economic costs of such events, but a team of researchers has recently announced the completion of an open-source model that stands to help countries with high tropical cyclone risks better calculate just how much those storms will impact their people and their economies. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:19:42 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627141942.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627123015.htm A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a short time before the dinosaurs went extinct. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:30:15 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230627123015.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164250.htm Taiwan experiences some of the world's fastest rates of mountain building -- they are growing at a faster rate than our fingernails grow in a year. The mountains also see frequent and significant earthquakes, the region experiences about four typhoons per year on average, and in some places, it receives upwards of several meters of rain annually. Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:42:50 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164250.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164236.htm 新的研究降低未来气候的不确定性change linked to the stratosphere, with important implications for life on Earth. A significant source of uncertainty relates to future changes to water vapor in the stratosphere, an extremely dry region of the atmosphere 15--50 km above the Earth's surface. Future increases in water vapor here risk amplifying climate change and slowing down the recovery of the ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from harmful solar ultraviolet radiation. Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:42:36 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164236.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164234.htm Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide in the air over the past 11,000 years. Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:42:34 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164234.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164149.htm A new study shows that current trends in environmental degradation will lead to large economic losses in the coming decades, hitting the poorest countries hardest. But there is hope: investing in nature can turn those losses into gains. Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:41:49 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626164149.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626163854.htm Similar to the expeditions of a hundred or two hundred years ago, the Tara Pacific expedition lasted over two years. The goal: to research the conditions for life and survival of corals. The ship crossed the entire Pacific Ocean, assembling the largest genetic inventory conducted in any marine system to date. The team's 70 scientists from eight countries took around 58,000 samples from the hundred coral reefs studied. Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:38:54 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230626163854.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623210246.htm Using a combination of satellite data and modeling to study the temperatures and humidity people might feel in urban areas, researchers have pinpointed who in the U.S. is most vulnerable to heat stress. Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:02:46 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623210246.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623161147.htm The global economy will grow slower in the 21st century than economists have expected, a finding that has implications for our ability to adapt to climate change in the coming decades, according to new research. Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:11:47 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623161147.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623161131.htm The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Considered one of the most important archaeological sites discovered in Central America in the last 40 years, El Gigante was recently nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:11:31 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623161131.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623105451.htm Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth's surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor of two, and potentially as much as a factor of four, in standard climate projections. Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:54:51 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230623105451.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230622120919.htm The first ever 3D seismic imaging of a subducting seamount shows a previously unknown sediment trail in Earth's crust off the coast of New Zealand. Scientists think the sediment patches help release tectonic pressure gradually in slow slip earthquakes instead of violent tremors. The findings will help researchers search for similar patterns at other subduction zones like Cascadia in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:09:19 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230622120919.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230622120908.htm If we want to face up to the challenges posed by climate change and other global environmental changes, we need to bring complexity science into the mix with ecology and biodiversity conservation. Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:09:08 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230622120908.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164800.htm Rewilding, organic farming and the 'nature friendly farming' measures included in some government conservation policies risk worsening the global biodiversity crisis by reducing how much food is produced in a region, driving up food imports and increasing environmental damage overseas. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:48:00 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164800.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164653.htm As scientists try to understand the effect of climate on trees, advances in imaging technology are helping them see both the whole forest and every individual tree. High-resolution images taken by cubesats, small, shoebox-sized devices launched into low Earth orbit, are helping environmental scientists make more precise measurements about trees' response to a warming climate. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:46:53 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164653.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164638.htm A team of glaciologists set out to quantify how much ice melt occurred on Antarctica's ice shelves from 1980 to 2021. The results might seem to be good news for the region, but the researchers say there's no cause for celebration just yet. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:46:38 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230621164638.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620174452.htm A team of scientists has observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate. Situated 60 kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, the magma channel covers more than 100,000 square kilometers, and originated from the Galápagos Plume more than 20 million years ago, supplying melt for multiple magmatic events -- and persisting today. Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:44:52 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620174452.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113805.htm New research has revealed that well-functioning ecosystems are crucial to human health and wellbeing, with human-biodiversity interactions delivering wellbeing gains equating to substantial healthcare cost-savings, when scaled-up across populations. Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:38:05 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113805.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113803.htm To conserve precious and fragile biodiversity hotspots, a crucial step is knowing how the fruit eaters are doing. To assist in that, scientists and students have supersized a database to keep track of such animals and birds. Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:38:03 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113803.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113749.htm 轨迹在许多地区的灌溉用水is unsustainable, but practice is vital in managing climate change and future agricultural development, researchers conclude. Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:37:49 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113749.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113738.htm New research showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented. Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:37:38 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230620113738.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230616161910.htm About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke. Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:19:10 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230616161910.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615183147.htm By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:31:47 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615183147.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615183117.htm The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than previously thought, new research suggests. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:31:17 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615183117.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615105329.htm Research team predicts Arctic without ice by the end of 2030s if current increasing rate of greenhouse gas emission continues. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:53:29 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615105329.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615105250.htm Areas of the ocean that are rich in marine life are having a bigger impact on our ecosystems and the climate than previously thought, new research suggests. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:52:50 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230615105250.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220621.htm Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that water and other essential ingredients for life were delivered to Earth very early on. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:06:21 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220621.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220617.htm A survey of groundwater samples drawn from aquifers beneath more than 80,000 square miles of Canadian prairie reveals ancient groundwaters harbor not only diverse and active microbial communities, but also unexpectedly large numbers of microbial cells. Strikingly, some of these microbes seem to produce 'dark oxygen' (in the absence of sunlight) in such abundance that the oxygen may nourish not only those microbes, but may leak into the environment and support other oxygen-reliant microbes that can't produce it themselves. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:06:17 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220617.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220611.htm New finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth. Moreover, the data suggests that 'when we're looking for exoplanets that harbor life, the planets do not necessarily need to have plate tectonics,' says the lead author of a new paper. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:06:11 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220611.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220546.htm An innovative, decade-long experiment in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains shows carbon stocks buried deep underground are vulnerable to climate change. The findings have implications for mitigating global warming through the natural carbon sinks provided by soil and forests which capture 25% of all carbon emissions. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:05:46 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220546.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220531.htm A team of researchers has applied a machine learning model to explore where and to what extent human activities are contributing to the hydrogeochemical changes, such as increases in salinity and alkalinity in U.S. rivers. The group used data from 226 river monitoring sites across the U.S. and built two machine learning models to predict monthly salinity and alkalinity levels at each site. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:05:31 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230614220531.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190839.htm Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations, as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:08:39 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190839.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190835.htm New research has found that extreme concentrations of microplastics could increase the temperature of beach sand enough to threaten the development of incubating sea turtles. Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:08:35 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190835.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190828.htm Lacking bones, brains, and even a complete gut, the body plans of simple animals like sea anemones appear to have little in common with humans and their vertebrate kin. Nevertheless, new research shows that appearances can be deceiving, and that a common genetic toolkit can be deployed in different ways to drive embryological development to produce very different adult body plans. It is well established that sea anemones, corals, and their jellyfish relatives shared a common ancestor with humans that plied the Earth's ancient oceans over 600 million years ago. A new study from the Gibson Lab, published in Current Biology on June 13, 2023, illuminates the genetic basis for body plan development in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. This new knowledge paints a vivid picture of how some of the earliest animals on earth progressed from egg to embryo to adult. Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:08:28 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230613190828.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230612114738.htm The seemingly stable regions of the Earth's continental plates -- the so-called stable cratons -- have suffered repetitive deformation below their crust since their formation in the remote past, according to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This hypothesis defies decades of conventional plate tectonics theory and begs to answer why most cratons have remained structurally stable while their underbellies have experienced significant change. Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:47:38 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230612114738.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230612114725.htm Gold is a precious metal that has always fascinated humans. From Priam's Treasure to the legend of El Dorado, gold --regarded as the noblest of metals-- has been a symbol of splendour and wealth in many civilizations. Historically, gold deposits were known to form when metal was transported dissolved by hot aqueous solution flows --hydrothermal fluids-- until it accumulated in some areas in the Earth's upper crust. The recent discovery of gold nanoparticles in such mineral deposits has brought some doubts on the validity of the classical model. Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:47:25 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230612114725.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230609125712.htm Researchers have shed light on the life of the ancient reptile Rhynchosaur, which walked the earth between 250-225 million years ago, before being replaced by the dinosaurs. Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:57:12 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230609125712.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230608121013.htm Human-induced warming, largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels, reached an average of 1.14°C for the most recent decade (2013 to 2022) above pre-industrial levels. This is up from 1.07°C between 2010 and 2019. Human-induced warming is now increasing at a pace of over 0.2°C per decade. The analysis also found that greenhouse gas emissions were 'at an all-time high', with human activity resulting in the equivalent of 54 (+/-5.3) gigatonnes (or billion metric tonnes) of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere on average every year over the last decade (2012-2021). Given the speed at which the global climate system is changing, the scientists argue that policymakers, climate negotiators and civil society groups need to have access to up-to-date and robust scientific evidence on which to base decisions. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:10:13 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230608121013.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230608120950.htm The Daitari greenstone belt shares a similar geologic make-up when compared to the greenstones exposed in the Barberton and Nondweni areas of South Africa and those from the Pilbara Craton of north-western Australia. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:09:50 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230608120950.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230607004104.htm Research suggests warming temperatures will see nearly 80 per cent of coral in reefs diseased in the next 80 years. Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:41:04 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230607004104.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230606164836.htm Geochemists report findings from collected and analyzed helium and carbon isotopic data from springs along a nearly 250-mile segment of Alaska's Denali Fault. The fault's mantle fluid flow rates, they report, fall in the range observed for the world's other major and active strike-slip faults that form plate boundaries. Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:48:36 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230606164836.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181258.htm Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon is stored in the soil, according to a new study with implications for mitigating climate change and improving soil health for agriculture and food production. Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:12:58 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181258.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181255.htm The accelerating loss of biodiversity and increasing rate of species extinction is a major threat to ecosystems around the globe. And yet, quantifying those losses at a large scale hasn't been possible, in large part due to a lack of the required infrastructure. But a new study shows that a major source for such information already exists in the form of environmental DNA (eDNA), which has been inadvertently collected in filters by thousands of ambient air quality monitoring stations in countries around the world for decades. Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:12:55 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181255.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181230.htm Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground -- more than China emits each year. Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:12:30 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230605181230.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230602115057.htm A study suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought. Clues in the landscape of southern Italy allowed researchers to produce a long-term, continuous record of rock uplift, the longest and most complete record of its kind. Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:50:57 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230602115057.htm //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230601182918.htm The seafloor is home to around one-third of all the microorganisms on the Earth and is inhabited even at a depth of several kilometers. Only when it becomes too hot does the abundance of microorganisms appear to decline. But how, and from what, do microorganisms in the deep seafloor live? How do their metabolic cycles work and how do the individual members of these buried communities interact? Researchers have now been able to demonstrate in laboratory cultures how small, liquid components of crude oil are broken down through a new mechanism by a group of microorganisms called archaea. Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:29:18 EDT //www.koonmotors.com/releases/2023/06/230601182918.htm