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Landmark Expedition Discovers Microbial Life Beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet

2014-08-21 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: An international team of biologists has discovered living microbes and an active ecosystem located one-half mile beneath the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, according to new research published online Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by Montana State University professor John Priscu, collected samples from subglacial Lake Whillans, which is located beneath more than 2600 feet of ice and has not been exposed to...

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