Study Finds Microorganism Populations in the Troposphere

Monday, January 28, 2013 - 16:38 in Biology & Nature

In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers used genomic techniques to document the presence of significant numbers of living microorganisms - principally bacteria - in the middle and upper troposphere, that section of the atmosphere approximately four to six miles above the Earth's surface.

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