Census of Deep Life

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has enabled natural gas companies to reach new heights in…

High-temperature hydrothermal vent systems, like black smokers, have generated of lot of interest…

Just off the coast of the continents, thousands of mud volcanoes are erupting from the seafloor,…

A group of DCO Deep Life Community members has developed guidelines to reduce contamination while…

DCO members Susan Lang (University of South Carolina, USA) Gretchen Früh-Green, Stefano Bernasconi…

DCO Deep Life Community members Rika Anderson, (Carleton College, USA), Julie Huber (Woods Hole…

A new paper in Environmental Microbiology Reports [1] suggests that deep microbes are doing just…

Iron ore mining began at Soudan in 1882 as an open pit and proceeded underground near the turn of…

Understanding the origins and cycling of methane on Earth is a key area of investigation. Since…

The DCO Deep Life Community convened at the Pestana Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, from 6-10 May 2015…