Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive over Decades-Old Fire

Just from the headline I knew this was gonna be about Centralia PA. Hooray! What do I win?

A Vice News subscription.

Hah! I get the reference. What do I win?

I wonder how far down this diversity goes. Perhaps the outer few km of the entire planet. That'd be very hard to kill off.

Is there a prose-free science version? What is the information content of the article?

It's actually pretty good reporting. I'd give it a full read.

There's enough details dropped about experiment durations, species counts, and references to the techniques used to measure that if you've already got a background in the field, you can infer quite a lot; and if you don't, you can skip those details.

What good reporting should be, in other words: a summary valid for a wide audience.