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Landmark Expedition Discovers Microbial Life Beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 21st, 2014
RedOrbit: An international team of biologists has discovered living microbes and an active ecosystem located one-half mile beneath the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, according to new research published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by Montana State University professor John Priscu, collected samples from subglacial Lake Whillans, which is located beneath more than 2600 feet of ice and has not been exposed to...
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Drought in West is Literally Moving Mountains
Posted by Climate Central: Bobby Magill on August 21st, 2014
Climate Central: Climate change is driving the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt, which is contributing to sea level rise. But imagine that the same amount of water melting from Greenland each year is being lost in California and the rest of the West because of the epic drought there.
What happens? The land in the West begins to rise.
In fact, some parts of California's mountains have been uplifted as much as 15 millimeters (about 0.6 inches) in the past 18 months because the massive amount of water lost in the drought...