Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity

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Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity

The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier picked up stones in Greenland that later turned up at the bottom of the sea as new housing for marine creatures. …

The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier picked up stones in Greenland that later turned up at the bottom of the sea as new housing for marine creatures. Credit: guardian_v2/Alamy In an extraordinary climate-change twist, marine creatures are gaining new homes on the Arctic sea floor , thanks to glaciers breaking up hundreds of kilometres away. …

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