Secret gardens may hide beneath floating slabs of ice in the Arctic. A pea soup of plantlike plankton has been uncovered that extends more than 100 kilometers under ice off Alaska’s coast.
PLANKTON HAZE A camera lowered beneath an ice slab off Alaska’s coast spotted this thick green haze of phytoplankton thriving in waters thought to be inhospitable to the microorganisms.
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