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
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