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Microbes thrive below Antarctic ice

2014-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: Researchers have uncovered a thriving community of microbes in a lake some 2,600 feet below the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the first direct evidence of life in such lakes and the first window on the ecosystem the microbes occupy. Genetic evidence extracted from samples of lake water indicates that the lake teems with a wide variety of microbes that make up a complete food chain, with those at the bottom drawing their energy from chemicals in rocks and sediment in the lake bed. In...

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