Scot Miller is an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering whose research focuses on greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. His ...

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Researchers have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru's northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new research ...

An electron microscope image of single-celled methanogens, members of the archaea branch of the tree of life. They are ubiquitous in oxygen-free environments, turning simple foods into methane, a ...

While leaky septic tanks continue to be an assumed key contributor to bacterial contamination of Lowcountry waterways, ...

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are some of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean and play a key role in nitrogen cycling. Yet, despite their ubiquity, scientists have long puzzled over how ...

The current climate change crisis is the result of carbon deposits that have taken many millions of years to build up being suddenly released into the atmosphere over the space of a few decades. But ...

The new study represents the first known bacteriological assessment of this scale in sharks and rays in Brazil, and its findings highlight the urgent need for more research in this area. Sharks and ...

Elemental mercury (Hg 0) is a toxic air pollutant that can travel long distances and circulate globally. Scientists have long suspected that today’s emission inventories do not fully explain measured ...