Scientists in Australia spent five years peering into the microscopic world of bark, emerging with a description of a place ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

Many of the microbes living in bark can live off various gases. This is a process recently coined as “aerotrophy”, as in “air ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden ally in the fight against climate change and air pollution: the microscopic communities ...