OSLO (Reuters) - Worms, bacteria and beetles living below ground are part of the largest and least known trove of life on earth that could have spinoffs from farming to pharmaceuticals, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
"We know little of what is living below our feet...yet it is vital to sustaining life on earth," said Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, which is hosting March 20-31 talks in Brazil.
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