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ALPALGA: The search for mountain snow microalgae – EurekAlert
The life of the microscopic algae that inhabit snow at high elevations is still relatively unknown. Researchers from the CNRS,…
In a white ocean, well above sea level, the algae thrive. Normally invisible to the naked eye, they are often spotted by hikers trekking through the mountains in late spring as strikingly coloured stretches of snow, in shades of ochre, orange and red. Known…
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