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...team led by microbiologist Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth College, set out to look for any such hangers-on at a particularly unforgiving place: Blood Falls, on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Blood Falls got its unlovely name due to red staining that comes from a snout on the Taylor Glacier - the result of heavy deposits of iron in its water. In ages past, a fjord ran through the area and brought with it swarms of marine life, but more than 1.5 million years ago the ice began to rise, and a pool of seawater became trapped - and then capped - creating...
...Mikucki and her group began sampling water that runs from deep within the glacier - which warms just enough in the Antarctic summer that it melts. Freed up after 1,500 millennia of absolute blackness and utter cold, the water at first seemed completely sterile. "When I started running chemical analysis on it," says Mikucki, "there was no oxygen...
David B. Arnold ’71, whose latest photo exhibit is designed to serve as an eye opener to the serious effects of global warming on some of the world’s most remote mountains and glaciers, spoke last night to a small group of students about his observations. The talk—co-hosted by the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Environmental Action Committee—centered on the new exhibit, which compares pictures taken by Arnold recently to pictures taken in the mid-20th century by former Mountaineering Club president and renowned photographer H. Bradford Washburn...
...deep sense of alienation from Indian society has developed among young Tibetans. "Many Indians see Tibetans as parasites," says Jigme. "They look down on us. I tell such people that Tibetan forces fought alongside Indians in the 1971 war [against Pakistan] in Kargil. They are present on the Siachen glacier [facing off against the Pakistani military.]" Jigme says he feels a sense of pride in the fact that his grandfather worked with a secret military force under the Indian government, but adds, "I still feel like we are people of nowhere...
...During the Antarctica marathon, Sprague said she remembers doubting herself as she slipped her way up the glacier. The end seemed “interminable,” she recalled...