Small pond, big life For their new study, the researchers analyzed samples taken from meltwater ponds in Antarctica. In 2018, Summons and colleagues from New Zealand traveled to a region of the ...

This new technique to detect melt pond coverage uses NASA’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument on the Landsat 7 satellite, developed with the aid of much higher resolution video ...

A cyanobacterial mat fragment sampled from the edge of a meltwater pond during a 2018 Antarctic expedition. (Roger Summons / MIT Summons Lab) A sample of amber-colored microbial mat collected from a ...

The latest dam built on a small creek partnered with high snow melt and a rainy June has local clubs seeking a drainage ...

One in five glaciers on Earth are covered with a layer of rocky debris. The presence of debris influences how glaciers melt. In the Himalaya, debris covers most large glaciers, and it is so thick ...

The communities of eukaryotes varied from pond to pond, revealing a surprising diversity of life across the setting. The team also found that salinity plays a key role in the kind of life a pond ...