A diverse account of how life exists in extreme environments and these systems' susceptibility and resilience to climate change.

This book provides an intriguing look at how life can adapt to many different extreme environments. It addresses the limits for life development and examines di

From arid deserts to icy poles, outer space to the depths of the sea, this exciting new work studies the remarkable life forms that have made these inhospitable

We are fascinated by the seemingly impossible places in which organisms can live. There are frogs that freeze solid, worms that dry out and bacteria that surviv

Modern methods and approaches, such as the analysis of molecular sequences to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms, have provided vast new sets of d