Simple forms of life are quick to colonise new 'desert' landscapes created by shrinking Arctic ice
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 05:31
in Earth & Climate
A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Leeds collected soils from an 'alien-like' post-glaciation landscape in the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard, which had only recently been uncovered after several thousand year old ice had melted away.