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Lake under Antarctic ice bursts with life

Multitude of microbes thrives in the icy waters

HOT WATER  Steam billows from an ice-melting machine. Scientists pumped the warmed water into the Antarctic ice sheet to burrow to a life-filled subglacial lake 800 meters below.

Reed Scherer

By Thomas Sumner

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