Living in the deep, dark, slow lane: first global appraisal of microbiomes in earth’s subsurface environments

Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine Credit Emil Ruff

Source: Emil Ruff

A new study reveals astonishingly high microbial diversity in some of the Earth’s deepest, darkest subsurface environments, including gold mines, in aquifers and deep boreholes in the seafloor.

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