Scientific American: When we think about global warming, we tend to fret about things we can see: plants, animals, the polar ice caps. But the effects of climate change may go much deeper: into the earth itself. Because a new study shows that temperature controls where soil-dwelling microbes live. The findings are in the journal Science. [Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al., Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities] (Audio of Garcia-Pichel here.)
Bacteria are key players...