Sustained increases in soil temperature cause microbes to dial down protein synthesis over the course of years but potentially on the scale of weeks. At the same time, warming microbial populations ...

In question are the kinds of feedbacks that can be expected from soil microbes in a warmer climate and the resulting effects on the global stocks of soil carbon. Existing climate models do not ...

bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth. Hungry as you and me, those microbes gobble up bits of plant and animal material. And just like ...