Climate change is one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time. The global microbiome, composed of 1 trillion species of microbes, during the last 4 billion years of evolved enzymes and solutions for a sustainable life on this planet. Microbes live in soil, rivers, lakes, oceans, rocks and in the most extreme environments of our planet and can digest greenhouse gases and plastics or fix...
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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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