Xinhua: Climate change is affecting the world's last great unspoiled wilderness of the Antarctic faster than previously thought, according to a New Zealand-led international team of researchers.
The scientists, led by Professor Craig Cary, of the University of Waikato, have been studying ecosystems in the continent's Dry Valleys and found that microbial communities in the soil undergo rapid and lasting changes in response to environmental conditions.
"We used to think that changes in microbial change......
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Climate change affecting Antarctica faster than previously thought: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2012
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