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 ...

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

Using the Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM), the researchers simulated the impact of accelerated warming on the Tibetan Plateau glaciers. The results suggest that the warming is projected to reduce ...