Scientists have long thought that a quarter of all life on Earth lives in the soil beneath our feet. The organisms, including bacteria, store carbon, and greenhouse gases. Now new findings are radically changing that idea.

In a new study, The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) estimates that 70 percent of Earth’s bacteria and archaea, single-celled microorganisms, live beneath our feet in a massive biosphere. And we aren’t talking just a few feet or even twenty feet: https://humansarefree.com/2021/03/scientists-biosphere-miles-below-earth-surface.html