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Microbes predate plants by roughly 1-2 billion years and animals by 3 billion.¹,²
If their existence spanned a full day, humans would arrive only in the final seconds.³
They are the earliest photosynthesizers, the ancestors of mitochondria, and fundamental to life on Earth.⁴,⁵,⁶
Their lineage has endured glacial periods, asteroid impacts, and massive volcanic eruptions—evolving, adapting, and persisting through it all.
Today, like every day, we sit in gratitude for these wise elders. And we look to them for solutions to the challenges of this moment, and the ones still to come.
Happy Earth Day 🌎
22 Apr 2026
Today, on International Microorganism Day, we invite you to look around and consider: Every living thing you see descended from the same microbe.
Over billions of years, what started as a single cell evolved into the biological foundation of Earth as we know it.¹ It was the most successful experiment in history. And it’s not over yet.
At Seed, we pioneer microbiome science for human and planetary health. With SeedLabs, our environmental research initiative, we advance microbial solutions to recover ecosystems impacted by human activity and climate change.
One company. One Health. Trillions of microorganisms. Infinite experimentation.
¹ Moody, E. R. R., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Mahendrarajah, T. A., Clark, J. W., Betts, H. C., Dombrowski, N., Szánthó, L. L., Boyle, R. A., Daines, S., Chen, X., Lane, N., Yang, Z., Shields, G. A., Szöllősi, G. J., Spang, A., Pisani, D., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2024). The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8, 1654–1666.
17 Sep 2026
The team at @earth is working on an exciting printed book project—and we want to feature your work. We’re looking for images that explore the wide range of life on Earth, from perspectives that are as diverse as the planet itself.
In the months ahead, we’ll be sharing prompts to guide your submissions. First up, we have:
Seeing the Invisible 🔎
What are the invisible forces shaping our world?
Jolting winds across water.
Roots holding soil in place.
Bacteria creating the conditions for life.
All the quiet systems working behind the scenes.
Submit your never-before-seen photo for ISO — Seeing the Invisible through the link in bio.
📷: Alecio Ferrari / @connectedarchives
12 Sep 2026
Video by @northlandscapes
Glaciers are home to a whole host of mysterious life.
Bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses can all settle on snow and ice, and many of these microbes have adapted strategies to withstand the extreme conditions.¹ As glaciers melt, different life forms emerge: microscopic "engineers" that both respond to the shifting conditions around them and help establish new ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.²
¹ Anesio, A. M., Lutz, S., Chrismas, N. A. M., & Benning, L. G. (2017). The microbiome of glaciers and ice sheets. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 3, 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-017-0019-0
² Kumar, A., Dahal, N., Lamichhaney, S., & Kumar, R. (2026). Melting mountains, shifting microbiomes: Reconsidering microbial roles in post-glacial ecosystem services. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 83, 101700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2026.101700
05 Nov 2026
Video by @francoispotvin.photography
Migrating birds connect our world.
Once winter approaches, snow geese make their annual journey south from Arctic regions to warmer climes thousands of miles away. Along the migration, they rest, refuel, and relieve themselves—and transport unseen life from one habitat to another in the process. Research on water birds shows that they are connectors of disparate ecological habitats, transferring microbes from one place to through unseen communities on their feathers and skin and in their waste.¹
¹ Szabó, B., Szabó, A., Vad, C. F., Boros, E., Lukić, D., Ptacnik, R., Márton, Z., & Horváth, Z. (2022). Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro- and microeukaryotic communities. Journal of Biogeography, 49, 1286–1298. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14381
03 Nov 2026
Behind every landscape you can see, there’s one you can’t.
Invisible networks of bacteria, fungi, and archaea unite our world, from the air around us to the soil beneath our feet.
This week, in honor of One Health Day,¹ we are celebrating the microbial connections that unite us, and everything around us, into one dynamic, ever-evolving system.
Fully appreciating this interconnected world starts with a shift in perspective. Swipe to reveal a new way of seeing.
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¹ One Health Day (Nov 3) is an annual celebration of the fact that the health of humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment is closely linked and interdependent.
Zoom out. Steamboat Springs sits in a geologically active region of the Rocky Mountains, with faults and fractures that enable deep fluids and gases to rise to the surface, creating CO₂-rich springs.
And there’s more happening here than meets the eye.
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Photo: @sean__greene
Zoom in. Look closely, and you’ll see microbial mats: A community of different kinds of microbes that come together to survive. Their colors provide clues about the nutrients that microbes are feeding off of.
The vibrant red you see here is likely a signature of iron-consuming bacteria, and the sheen is not oil, but the result of metals being oxidized by microbes.²
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Photo: @sean__greene
² Chan, C. S., McAllister, S. M., Leavitt, A. H., Glazer, B. T., Krepski, S. T., & Emerson, D. (2016). The architecture of iron microbial mats reflects the adaptation of chemolithotrophic iron oxidation in freshwater and marine environments. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 796. doi.org/10.3389/…
Zoom out. Along the fault lines of Romania, methane gas (CH₄) that collects miles underneath the surface can erupt through “mud volcanoes”—fissures in the land that constantly spew the potent greenhouse gas.
Once methane reaches the surface, it sets off a cascade of invisible activity.
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Photo: @toriferenc
Zoom in. Unseen microbes can both create and consume methane gas. Some species produce CH₄ as part of their metabolism, while others use it as an energy source.³ On mud volcanoes, both of these microbes likely coexist, responding to their environment in vastly different ways.
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02 Nov 2026
Photographers built @earth. Now, we’re building something for you.
We are printing a book of images that capture the beauty, creativity, and genius of our home planet.
If you’re a photographer exploring the wide range of life on Earth with your lens, we want to feature your work.
Though we are open to a wide range of subjects and styles, we’ll be regularly sharing prompts to spark fresh ideas.
The latest is: Evolved to Adapt
Over hundreds of millions of years, plants, animals, and fungi have evolved ingenious ways to not just survive, but thrive. Explore how photography can capture the adaptations that power all life on Earth.
Submit your portfolio for consideration in the Earth Book through the link in bio.
29 Oct 2026
Video by @faisalmagnet
The Malabar parakeet (Psittacula columboides) calls just one place home: India’s Western Ghats.¹
This mountain range’s complex geological history and varied terrain have helped shape a diversity of endemic species that don’t exist anywhere else on Earth.² Here, native parakeets mainly favor flowers and nectar but also forage in fruit trees such as Ficus callosa (calloused fig).³ ⁴ Those same trees have hidden residents: it’s suggested that fungi inside their seeds help protect against soil pathogens.⁵ From forests to birds to the fungi in a single seed, each piece is part of an intricate and interconnected system that has developed over millions of years.
¹ SoIB 2025. State of India’s Birds factsheet: Malabar Parakeet Psittacula columboides (India) https://stateofindiasbirds.in/species/malpar1/
² Joshi, J., & Karanth, P. (2013). Did southern Western Ghats of peninsular India serve as refugia for its endemic biota during the Cretaceous volcanism? Ecology and Evolution, 3(10), 3275–3282. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.603
³ Gokula, V., & Venkatraman, C. (2003). Foraging and breeding biology of the Malabar Parakeet Psittacula columboides in the Siruvani foothills, Tamil Nadu, India. Forktail, 19, 138–139. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/part/283695
⁴ Vanitharani, J., Bharathi, B. K., Margaret, I. V., et al. (2009). Ficus diversity in southern Western Ghats: A boon for biodiversity conservation. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Biology, 6(1), 69–79.
⁵ Sundararajan, S., Chamoli, G., Dalling, J. W., et al. (2026). Getting by with a little help from fungal friends: Seed-associated endophytes contribute to seed defense against fungal pathogens in keystone tropical trees. Ecology and Evolution, 16(8), e74184. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74184
26 Oct 2026
Video by @thailand_adel
The Phang Nga Bay region of Thailand is a maze of small islets, productive mangroves, and intertidal forests.
Here, dramatic tidal changes obscure and reveal land throughout the day. This constant cycling of water shapes the microbial communities in the mangrove mud,¹ and these coastlines are home to new species that have only recently been scientifically documented.²
¹ Zhang, R., Liu, L., Yang, Y., et al. (2025). Seawater tides shaped mangrove sediment a bacterial community drastically distinct from supratidal land soil. BMC Microbiology, 25(1), 742. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-025-04486-3
² Ginn, B. L. C., Praiboon, J., Merican, F., et al. (2025). Exploring cyanobacteria from the Andaman mangroves of Thailand: Descriptions of new species of Desertifilum, Roseofilum, Tigrinifilum, and Persinema using a polyphasic approach. Journal of Phycology, 61(5), 1423–1442. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.70074
23 Oct 2026
Photos by @codyconk
The Tetons offer a buffet of options for hungry herbivores.
Over 1,000 species of plants grow in the park and its surroundings, from canyon floors to mountainsides.¹ The average adult moose can consume 40 to 60 pounds of them a day—with the help of a highly skilled digestive system.² Research on moose in North America suggests their gut microbes can break down tough plant fiber and carry genes for degrading certain plant defense compounds.³ ⁴ It’s this unseen life that helps the abundance of this landscape cycle through the creatures that call it home.
¹ National Park Service. (n.d.). Plants. Grand Teton National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/nature/plants.htm
² New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. (n.d.). Moose. https://dec.ny.gov/nature/animals-fish-plants/moose
³ Ishaq, S. L., Kim, C. J., Reis, D., et al. (2015). Fibrolytic bacteria isolated from the rumen of North American moose (Alces alces) and their use as a probiotic in neonatal lambs. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0144804. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144804
⁴ Menke, S., Fackelmann, G., Vucetich, L. M., et al. (2026). Forage quality shapes physiological and gut microbial responses in moose (Alces alces) of Isle Royale National Park. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 3724. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35555-w
19 Oct 2026
Video by @tylekki
As snow blows off mountain peaks, some of the landscape’s living material is carried with it.
Patagonia’s glaciers are covered in life: the soil, ice, and snow host diverse microorganisms.¹ ² Winds suspend these microbes into the air where they can hitch a ride on dust or other tiny particles and travel—further than you might expect. Living bacteria all the way in northern Antarctic Peninsula snow appear to have arrived from Southern Patagonia.³
¹ Duo Saito, R. A., Connell, L., Rodriguez, R., et al. (2018). Metabarcoding analysis of the fungal biodiversity associated with Castaño Overa Glacier – Mount Tronador, Patagonia, Argentina. Fungal Ecology, 36, 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2018.07.006
² Modenutti, B., Martyniuk, N., Bastidas Navarro, M., et al. (2023). Glacial influence affects modularity in bacterial community structure in three deep Andean North-Patagonian lakes. Microbial Ecology, 86(3), 1869–1880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02184-z
³ Cataldo, M., Evangelista, H., Pereira, J. A. A., et al. (2023). Aerobiology in high latitudes: Evidence of bacteria acting as tracer of warm air mass advection reaching northern Antarctic Peninsula. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 95(Suppl 3), e20210807. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202320210807
17 Oct 2026
Video by @thurstonphoto
Massive waves redistribute the smallest of particles.
Each swell carries microbes such as Pelagibacterales—one of the most abundant life forms in the open ocean.¹ These widespread bacteria are made up of genetically distinct, niche-specialized ecotypes adapted to specific temperatures and depths.² Together, these ecotypes help drive marine carbon and nutrient cycling, making the ocean a living patchwork of organisms that are invisible yet indispensable.¹
¹ Bolaños, L. M., Tait, K., Somerfield, P. J., et al. (2022). Influence of short and long term processes on SAR11 communities in open ocean and coastal systems. ISME Communications, 2(1), 116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00198-1
² Harbeitner, R. C., Wittmers, F., Yung, C. C. M., et al. (2024). Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions. PLoS ONE, 19(4), e0298139. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298139
15 Oct 2026
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