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Published online 19 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050718-5

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Bacteria exposed after ice collapse

Antarctic trawl uncovers threatened ecosystem.

A strange ecosystem has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. But the collapse of the ice shelf that allowed researchers to find it also threatens the community's future.

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