Reaching backwards --- Questions and answers -- The importance of water and ice -- The diversity of ice -- Permafrost -- What is life? -- Fossils : marking time -- Walking into the past -- Isolating and characterizing microbes from ice -- A brief history of research on life in ice -- Ice core discoveries -- Subglacial Lake Vostok -- Discoveries from other ice-covered lakes -- Life is everywhere -- Pathogens in the environment viruses -- Pathogens, hazards, and dangers -- Everything old is new again, the ultimate in recycling -- Astrobiology : out of this world -- Disappearing ice : global climate change -- Epilogue.
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"This book explores the emergence of microbes embedded in ice for thousands - even millions - of years, now being released into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. This book explores the emergence of these microbes and the implications for terrestrial, as well as extra-terrestrial, life"--