Unaccounted for Arctic microbes appear to be speeding up glacier melting
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
Scientists have discovered that Arctic microbes are increasing the rate at which glaciers melt, in a process not accounted for in current climate change models. Working on an icecap in Svalbard, in the far north of Norway, the team showed that this process is driven by a single species of photosynthetic bacteria, from the genus Phormidesmis.