New biological communities discovered under the Antarctic ice cap Blog Post

The collapse of large ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula has allowed a group of researchers to discover new submarine communities in extreme environments under the Antarctic ice cap. The edition of the American journal EOS, published by the American Geophysical Union, released on 19 July, reports the discovery on the basis of the results of a scientific expedition that involved the researcher Verònica Willmott, a member of the at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB); a group associated with the Parc Científic de Barcelona.