Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...ducts are currently put to numerous uses including iceberg monitoring and ship tracking. And the archive of ... year include: The splitting of the gigantic B-15 iceberg off the Antarctic coast, captured by a sequence of ASAR images as it was ripped in two by winter sto...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...ecological role. "We now know just the tip of the iceberg of all the microbes that exist on Earth, and it generally is believed that a large portion of these unknown microbes are very small in size," Miteva says. "A major challenge is to develop novel approaches for growing some of these previously uncult...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
... ecological role. We now know just the tip of the iceberg of all the microbes that exist on Earth, and it generally is believed that a large portion of these unknown microbes are very small in size," Miteva says. "A major challenge is to develop novel approaches for growing some of these previously uncultu...Whale carcass yields bone-devouring worms
...at the two new worm species are but the tip of the iceberg (or perhaps the tip of the whale's tail). Whale carcasses-or whale falls, as they are called-represent a massive input of food into the generally food-limited environment of the deep sea. One whale fall can provide as much organic material as thousan...... private legal arrangements is just the tip of the iceberg of actual harvests. "Any penalties for illegal taking of moss are usually small and rarely enforced," Muir said. "There also is a lack of record keeping and reporting on many public lands, and clearly some illegal harvesting on both public...