In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land
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In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local ranger guided them through Pan de Azúcar, a roughly 150-square-mile national park on the southern coast …