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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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Dow Microbial Control Gains EU Market Approval for Marine Antifouling Agent DCOIT

2014-08-15 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News

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The 'microbial garden' taking the shine off glaciers

2014-06-11 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and have a non-negligible impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into space. The research, led by the University of Leeds and published today in the journal FEMS Microbiology Ecology, will help improve climate change models that have previously neglected the role of microbes in darkening the Earth's surface. Observing how life thrives at extreme cold temperatures also...

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