‘Bacteria in the ocean produce 50% of the world’s oxygen. If you thought trees were important – yeah, they are, but they are only half the story. Without microbial photosynthesis in the ocean, you don’t have enough oxygen on the planet to breathe’, says US microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert. Most […]

The worst part of being a plant is that if you don’t like the place where you were born, you can’t pick up and move. With roots firmly anchored in the ground, a plant is stuck in one location for life, which may be less than a year but could […]