The above quotation (Ezekiel 47: 11) refers to the Dead Sea, the lake where I started exploring microbial diversity in hypersaline environments forty-five years ago. In spite of the extreme conditions ...

The ocean contains a huge variety of habitat types, some of which are due to topographic heterogeneities of geological or sedimentological origin, whereas others are created by habitat-forming species ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered bacteria frozen in an ancient underground ice cave that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. Ice caves host a variety of microorganisms, which if melted, could add to the ...