Abstract Climate extremes are escalating under anthropogenic climate change1. Yet, how this translates into unprecedented cumulative extreme event exposure in a person’s lifetime remains unclear. Here we use climate models, impact models and demographic data to project the number of people experiencing cumulative lifetime exposure to climate extremes above the 99.99th percentile of exposure expected in a ...
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Abstract Reference genomes of root microbes are essential for metagenomic analyses and mechanistic studies of crop root microbiomes. By combining high-throughput bacterial cultivation with metagenomic sequencing, we constructed comprehensive bacterial and viral genome collections from the roots of wheat, rice, maize, and Medicago. The crop root bacterial genome collection (CRBC) significantly expands the qu...
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Read the full report: https://asm.org/Reports/Microbial-Solutions-for-Climate-Change Read the Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00875-w It is a pleasure to announce that the new report “Microbial Solutions for Climate Change: Toward an Economically Resilient Future” has been released by the International Union for Microbiological Societies (IUMS) and the American Society for Mi...
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The climate crisis is escalating.Amultitude ofmicrobe-based solutions have been proposed, and these technologies hold great promise and could be deployed along with other climate mitigation strategies. However, these solutions have not been deployed effectively at scale. To reverse this inaction, collaborators across different sectors are needed—from industry, funders and policymakers — to coordinate th...
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