IS THERE ANY ON EARTH IN WHICH BACTERIA CANNOT LIVE

In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, it looks as if nothing could ever survive. It is one of the driest places in the world, and some sections of the Mars-like expanse can go 50 years without feeling a drop of rain.Yet Atacama is not devoid of life,there only lives small bacterias which live in rocks.

Life exists at the other extreme, too, in subfreezing conditions. Bacteria in the genus Psychrobacte can happily live below -10C  in Siberian permafrost and Antarctic glacier mud. Living cells recently turned up in a subglacial lake below the Antarctic ice.

The radiation at Chernobyl can still kill many living things, but resistant organisms thrive , even in containers of radioactive waste.

Nearly two years ago, a team of biologists claimed to have discovered new bacteria that not only could survive in an environment rich in arsenic, it could fold the toxic element into the very heart of its biochemistry.

 The truth is, they live everywhere, even places on earth where we once thought nothing could survive.

In the cold. Most bacteria don't grow as well in colder temperatures, which is why putting your food in the refrigerator helps keep it from spoiling. There are bacteria called psychrophiles , though, that can live and reproduce in cold temperatures ,even below the freezing point. Researchers in Antarctica have discovered bacteria in ice samples taken from about 11,700 feet deep in the ice above Lake Vostok.