The 'microbial garden' taking the shine off glaciers

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 18:00 in Earth & Climate

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.

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