LIFE can thrive even in the extreme environment beneath glaciers, say
researchers in Canada. What’s more, these microbial communities could have had
an impact on our climate during the transitions between ice ages and
interglacials.
Bacteria have been found underneath glaciers before, but it has been assumed
they are dead or dormant. Now a team from the University of Alberta in Edmonton
has found that these subglacial bacteria flourish in dark cold conditions like
those under glaciers. “It does seem to be increasingly true that microorganisms
can live just about everywhere on just about everything,” comments Michael Bird
of the…
