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Nature 415, 828-830 (21 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415828a;

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Life in the deep freeze

Had the biologists not intervened, a unique source of data might have been damaged for ever. Drilling innocently through the ice sheets that cover Antarctica, a team of climate researchers at first had no idea that they were also heading towards a valuable biological resource: a huge subglacial lake languishing in near-isolation some 4,000 metres below the ice.

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