While analyzing core samples from an ancient Tibetan glacier, scientists found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before. As Ohio State University explained in ...

Two Medicine is a perfect area to cross items off your Glacier to-do list. On the hunt for a history lesson? The Two Medicine Chalet (which is now a store and snack bar) is housed in an old log ...

"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 ...

Glacier retreat also poses new disaster risks. China's glaciers are located mainly in the west and north of the country, in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, and the provinces of Sichuan ...

The largest glacier in the 800-kilometer mountain chain on the arid northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau has retreated about 450 meters since the 1950s, when researchers set up China’s first ...