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World Service,1 min

Venturing to the Greenland ice sheet's 'Dark Zone'

CrowdScience

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Climate scientist Martyn Trantor explains to CrowdScience's Marnie Chesterton how tiny purple algae are darkening the massive Greenland ice sheet and why such organisms that require water and sunlight would make their home on such an inhospitably cold surface.

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