Expedition uncovers subglacial life beneath Antarctic ice sheet
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 12:21
in Earth & Climate
The first breakthrough paper to come out of a massive U.S. expedition to one of Earth's final frontiers shows that there's life and an active ecosystem one-half mile below the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, specifically in a lake that hasn't seen sunlight or felt a breath of wind for millions of years.