For scientists working in China, 15,000-year-old glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau provided a glimpse ... Upon examining ice core samples taken from the glacier, researchers were able to identify ...

If current trends hold, Chinese scientists believe that 40 percent of the plateau's glaciers could disappear by 2050. "Full-scale glacier shrinkage is inevitable," says Yao Tandong, a glaciologist ...

The samples were taken from the Guliya Glacier, which is located in the Tibetan Plateau. Due to the climate crisis and the ...

The team's findings, detailed in the paper titled "Source of lead in a Tibetan glacier since the Stone Age," were recently ...

Xu Qiangqiang, an assistant researcher at the China Academy of Sciences' Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, measures the size of the Dongkemadi Glacier using a laser radar in ...

86° S., long. 153° W., and then ascending the glacier reached the surface of the polar plateau at an elevation of about seven thousand feet. The ranges appear to continue with decreasing heights ...

Un plateau de glace est défini comme étant un glacier plat flottant, d'une épaisseur considérable, qui émerge de 2 m à 50 m ou plus et qui est fixé à la côte, selon l'Organisation ...