I’ve been fascinated by glaciers since I was 14, when geography textbooks taught me about strange rivers of ice that crept down yawning valleys like giant serpents stalking their next meal. That kernel of wonder has carried me through a career of more than 25 years. I’ve travelled to the world’s peaks and its poles to see over 20 glaciers. Yet, when I first started out as a researcher in the early 1990s, we were convinced glaciers were lifeless deserts.
Then in 1999, Professor Martin Sharp and colleagues discovered bacteria living beneath the Haut Glacier d’Arolla in Switzerland. It seemed that glaciers, like the soil or our stomachs, had their own community of microbes, their own microbiome. Since then, we’ve found microorganisms just about everywhere within glaciers, transforming what we thought were sterile wastelands into vibrant ecosystems.
Kenya is ripe for third party litigation funding
Monday March 15 2021
In Kenya access to justice is via litigation and alternative dispute resolution methods like mediation and arbitration.
The main costs therefore when commencing any dispute resolution claims is fees.
In Kenya access to justice is via litigation and alternative dispute resolution methods like mediation and arbitration. The main costs therefore when commencing any dispute resolution claims is fees. In the case of litigation, court filing fees and arbitration or mediation fees if parties opt for the alternative dispute resolution route.
In addition, parties are required to pay their lawyers legal fees. The Advocates Act provides a lawyer and his client the freedom to charge an agreed amount as legal fees. For most lawyers, legal fees form their main source of income and it therefore does not come cheap.
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The frozen desert serves as a scientific haven for more than 1,000 researchers around the year, who monitor climate change and study Earth’s history. Its barren landscape gives them access to an unspoilt world, where they can complete their research, despite temperatures dropping to as low as -90C. Following more than a decade of planning, scientist Dr John Priscu led a team of researchers to drill through the overlying ice sheet and sample the waters of a proposed lake hidden beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.