As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the ...

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as well as the ocean's carbon budget.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gingko Bioworks is extending a partnership agreement with Bayer to continue developing microbial nitrogen fixation ...