A giant, impossible icicle. Starkly exposed mountain slopes. Billion-year-old rocks behind a lone iceberg. And the view from within a glacial tunnel. These four beautiful and moving images come ...

Why is microbial diversity important? First, microbial ecology plays a central part in the geochemistry of the planet. The more we understand the diverse organisms that are involved in global ...

The city-sized iceberg, called A-84 ... as well as its remarkable diversity. In most deep-sea environments, organisms rely on a steady drizzle of organic matter sinking from the sunlit surface.