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The effects of 'pink snow' and 'glacier blood' on our climate

The red-pigmented algae living on snow linked to glacier melt

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica captured by NASA.
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica captured by NASA. Trinity Hamilton, geomicrobiologist at the University of Minnesota, researches algae and its impact on glacier melt.
Huttner, Paul