Even though 2024 was another bad year for Alpine glaciers, their melting may release microorganisms potentially useful to medicine and industry.

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting ... years-old viruses from the Guliya ice cap of the Tibetan Plateau, and gain insights into their functions. "These glaciers ...

A team of researchers from the US and China has discovered 28 new virus groups in samples of ice from one of the planet's oldest glaciers. As climate change takes over Earth — melting ice could ...

A new scientific study published Thursday suggests ... as a warming planet is inevitably causing glaciers to melt. If nothing is done to stop global warming, the world could lose glaciers ...

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"but also to melt the base of the ice shelf, which if you weaken will make the ice further upstream in the glacier flow faster." How will the new survey information be used? Scientists need real ...

Scientists have found nearly 1,700 species of ancient viruses in ice cores from the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan ... The discovery offers new tools for studying Earth’s climate history and ...

The South Col glacier may be small but it may be a sign of things to come Climate change is causing the highest glacier on Mount Everest to melt at a rapid pace, a new study has found. Researchers ...