The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Melting Arctic ice enables nitrogen-fixing microbes to feed algae and absorb carbon, challenging old climate views.

By the beginning of June this year, approximately 38 million tons of Sargassum drifted towards the coasts of the Caribbean ...

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can tap into this ...

Melting Arctic sea ice can be a driving force behind a process called nitrogen fixation, where atmospheric nitrogen can be ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

Researchers found that the fringes of Arctic sea ice tend to host more nitrogen-fixing bacteria and higher nitrogen-fixing ...

The marine nitrogen cycle is crucial to sustaining ocean productivity, with biological nitrogen fixation representing a primary mechanism by which inert atmospheric nitrogen is converted into ...

As Arctic sea ice melts, new life may emerge from the thaw. Researchers have discovered that bacteria beneath and along the melting ice are converting nitrogen gas into a form that fuels algae. The ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation. It was assumed that the high levels of oxygen ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce ...