"Full-scale glacier shrinkage is inevitable," says Yao Tandong, a glaciologist at China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research. "And it will lead to ecological catastrophe." The potential impacts ...

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 ...

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

The potency of these viruses is unknown, with some potentially lethal and others likely harmless. Unknown ancient viruses up to 15,000 years old have been discovered lurking in prehistoric ice ...

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

Scientists have been able to revive 33 types of ancient viruses, which are thought to have been frozen in the ice of the Guliya ice cap in the Tibetan Plateau 15,000 years ago. Of those ...