[Microbiology Resource Announcements] We report the genomic sequences of seven bacterial isolates from the western coast of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The surface ice along the margins of the ice […]
Greenland ice sheet
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Ice Planet Orbital Recon: Greenland’s Changing Ice
Greenland is the world’s largest island and about 80% of its surface is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice mass on Earth after the Antarctic Ice […]
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Giant Viruses Have Been Found On Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Every spring when the sun rises in the Arctic after months of darkness, life returns. The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from […]