If you have an image in your head of Antarctica as a blindingly white winter wonderland, this photo of blood-red snow covering the ground will likely challenge that. As LiveScience reports, the images were posted to Facebook by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and were shot outside of the country’s Vernadsky Research Base in the far north of Antarctica.
It might look like the scene of some incredible massacre or biblical plague, but what you’re actually seeing here is algae growth on melting snow. The algae blooms in the summer, which it just so happens to be right now in Antarctica, and the growing intensity of the blooms have been linked to a warming climate.
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