By 2050, Iconic World Heritage Glaciers Will Disappear
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By 2050, a third of the fifty UNESCO World Heritage Sites where glaciers are found are likely to disappear. These…
Glaciers
Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice Is Changing Antarctica Fast
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Antarctica, the frozen continent, is changing fast. Antarctica’s ice loss will accelerate as the climate warms, which poses the greatest…
Melting Tibetan Glaciers Unleash 15,000-Year Old Viruses
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Scientists analyzed old ice samples from the Tibetan plateau and found in them the genomic sequences of more than 30 ancient viruses, most of which were not previously known to science. The viruses from the Guliya ice cap have been given an approximate point of origin – around 15,000 years ago.