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Ancient methane is escaping from beneath Arctic glaciers as their beds thaw
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1027+ words) Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what people emit. A glacier melts from the top, and the water runs off in rivers barely above freezing....
Greenland ice reveals a pollution mystery that began after 1990
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (798+ words) Greenland ice reveals a surprising shift in industrial pollution after 1990 that could help explain recent Arctic warming. Buried deep in the Greenland ice sheet is a chemical diary of a century of industrial pollution, and the entries after 1990 don’t add…...
Life has run on four genetic letters for billions of years, and a bacterial enzyme just read eight
1+ week, 3+ day ago (927+ words) DNA normally uses four letters. In lab tests, a bacterial enzyme successfully read eight, including four synthetic bases. All life writes with four letters. Because A pairs only with T, and G only with C, a cell can copy its…...
Antarctica is home to microbes found nowhere else on Earth
1+ week, 4+ day ago (759+ words) Antarctic soils harbor microbes found nowhere else on Earth, revealing a hidden world of life uniquely adapted to the continent’s extreme conditions. A new study has found that there are microbes in Antarctica’s soil that don’t exist anywhere else on…...
Some fungi could be thousands of years old, but no one knows for sure
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1059+ words) Fungi may live for thousands of years, but their hidden networks and unclear boundaries make their true ages nearly impossible to determine. You can learn a tree’s age by counting the rings in its trunk. A fungus has no rings…...