For much of the year, the frozen ring encircling Antarctica is dismissed as a frontier too hostile to matter ecologically — a place where ice-bound temperatures can plunge to minus 20 degrees Celsius and some of the planet’s fiercest winds make it nearly impossible to reach by ship. But a new study led by scientists at Stellenbosch University in South Africa finds that this seemingly barren expanse hosts a hidden reservoir of microbial life — an…
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