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The Forum: Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

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Car quarry image by Bradley L. Garrett.  Credit: Bradley L. Garrett

03/09/2016 GMT

Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

BBC World Service - The Forum, Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

Exploring the mysteries of the biosphere below the earth’s surface.

The infrastructure below our cities and life two miles below the earth’s surface. Exploring the mysteries of the biosphere below the earth’s surface.

This week, The Forum delves into the subterranean world of life underground – from the forgotten tunnels and catacombs of our cities to life found in the stifling sunless world two miles below the Earth’s surface.  Might humans one day retreat underground if living above ground becomes too tough?  Bridget Kendall with Social Geographer Dr. Bradley L. Garrett, Zoologist Dr. Gaetan Borgonie  and Isotope Geochemist Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar.

Photo: Car Quarry image (credit: Bradley L. Garrett)

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