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Searching for Life in Greenland's Icy Interior

NPR | By Richard Harris
Published December 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM EST
Greenland's inland ice is not as devoid of life as one might think, but it's still a hard existence even for native species, such as this adult female northern wheatear.
Greenland's inland ice is not as devoid of life as one might think, but it's still a hard existence even for native species, such as this adult female northern wheatear.

Greenland's interior is a solid sheet of ice — hundreds of miles of frozen terrain that is seemingly inhospitable for life. But when NPR's Richard Harris traveled dozens of miles inland on the ice sheet, he discovered that it's not as lifeless as you would expect.

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Richard Harris
Award-winning journalist Richard Harris has reported on a wide range of topics in science, medicine and the environment since he joined NPR in 1986. In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.