Bacteria may thrive in Antarctic lake
... that Lake Vostok "is one of the last unexplored oases for life" on Earth. The teams also conclude microbes could thrive in other, similarly hostile, places in the solar system. Lake Vostok is thought to be an analog to Europa, a frozen moon of Jupiter. Priscu notes in his paper that the Gal...Lyme disease ticks follow rivers in midwest
...," says Cortinas. "These river corridors are like oases in the desert, where the ticks can survive and move along." While the movement of the ticks can predict the eventual arrival of the disease, they are not the only element of the equation, says Cortinas. Two other elements are necessary. First...Healy researchers make a series of striking discoveries about Arctic Ocean
...othermal vents, the deep-sea hot springs that host oases of life on the deep seafloor. Instead, sampling sites revealed abundant fresh lava and multiple signs of hydrothermal activity. Most surprisingly, a dredge team, led by Jeffrey Standish, a graduate student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut...Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
...ow areas of platforms have suggested that they are oases of marine life. During the mission, researchers hope to catalog the diversity of organisms on two of these man-made leviathans at depths as great as 1,000 feet as well as collect any new species anchored there. Although oil companies are required to ...Antarctic penguins thrive in ocean 'oases'
...pots along the coast of Antarctica. The biological oases are open waters, called polynyas, where blooming plankton support the local food chain. The research found a strong association between the well being of Adelie Penguin populations in the Antarctic and the productivity of plankton in the polynyas. Po......d wide over the ocean surface is concentrated into oases of nutrients for fish. The results provide possible clues to the question of survival of marine species in nutrient-poor habitats. They could have significant applications in fishing and in particular for tuna stock management. However, the exact nat...