The Earth's cryosphere comprises those regions that are cold enough for water to turn into
ice. Recent findings show that the icy realms of polar oceans, glaciers and ice sheets are …

The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas
content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice …

Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

In modern life petroleum-based plastic has become indispensable due to its frequent use as
an easily available and a low cost packaging and moulding material. However, its rapidly …

Speleothems are now established as important palaeoenvironmental archives and contain a
number of suitable proxies, although trace elements have been much less widely used than …

There is now compelling evidence that microbially mediated reactions impart a significant
effect upon the dynamics, composition, and abundance of nutrients in glacial melt water …

Bacteria and fungi are primary constituents of airborne microbes in fine particulate matter
(PM 2.5) and significantly impact human health. However, hitherto, seasonal variation and …

Glacier ecosystems are teeming with life on, beneath, and to a lesser degree, within their icy
masses. This conclusion largely stems from polar research, with less attention paid to …

Mineralogy, microbial ecology, and mineral weathering in the subsurface are an intimately
linked biogeochemical system. Although bacteria have been implicated indirectly in the …

Microorganisms play a central role in the regulation of ecosystem processes, and they
comprise the vast majority of species on Earth. With recent developments in molecular …