In an era of rapid climate change and expansion of desertification, the extremely harsh
conditions of drylands are a true challenge for microbial life. Under drought conditions …

Microbial growth under extreme conditions is often slow. This is partly because large
amounts of energy are diverted into cellular mechanisms that allow survival under hostile …

The composition of fungal and bacterial communities in three polythermal glaciers and
associated aquatic environments in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard was analysed using a …

Hypersaline waters and glacial ice are inhospitable environments that have low water
activity and high concentrations of osmolytes. They are inhabited by diverse microbial …

Climate warming is causing widespread deglaciation and pioneer soil formation over glacial
deposits. Melting glaciers expose rocky terrain and glacial till sediment that is relatively low …

The global cryosphere, Earth's frozen water, is in precipitous decline. The ongoing and
predicted impacts of cryosphere loss are diverse, ranging from disappearance of entire …

The novel extremophilic yeast Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis, formerly R. JG1b, was isolated
from ice-cemented permafrost in University Valley (Antarctic), one of coldest and driest …

Blooms of pigmented algae darken the surface of glaciers and ice sheets, thereby
enhancing solar energy absorption and amplifying ice and snow melt. The impacts of algal …

Heavily pigmented glacier ice algae Ancylonema nordenskiöldii and Ancylonema
alaskanum (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) reduce the bare ice albedo of the Greenland …

Abstract The microbiome of Greenland Ice Sheet supraglacial habitats is still
underinvestigated, and as a result there is a lack of representative genomes from these …