While analyzing core samples from an ancient Tibetan glacier, scientists found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of ...

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

"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 ...

More information: M. Roxana Sierra-Hernández et al, Sources of lead in a Tibetan glacier since the Stone Age, Communications ...

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 ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last ...

Passengers on the world's highest train line rave about the stunning mountain views, but say the altitude sickness is ...

Scientists have found nearly 1,700 species of ancient viruses in ice cores from the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau. About 75% of these viruses are previously unknown to science. The ice ...

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 ...