Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake buried under 2.5 miles (4 km) of Antarctic ice, has been completely cut off from sunlight, the atmosphere, and the rest of Earth for millions of years - and is teeming with life. Scientists drilled down and found thousands of microscopic organisms, including bacteria, fungi, and even signs of complex life.

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Nice press on our recent #SubglacialLake paper in #AGUAdvances

"“There’s no other way to get carbon-14 in there,” Balco (who was not involved in the study) says. “You can’t push it through ice. Organisms can’t tunnel through. The only way for it to get it there is for ocean water to get under the ice sheet.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lake-antarctica-ice-microbes-carbon