Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” – nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise – is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research.

A recent study suggests that ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable clues about Earth’s climate history. Researchers analyzed ice core samples from the Guliya Glacier, located ...

On Ice When 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 ...

A glacial outburst flood is underway on the Taku River south of Juneau. Although water that was held back by glacial ice is ...

The trove of ancient microbes contains the most viral information ever uncovered from a glacier.

The most distinct community of viral species on the glacier appeared about 11,500 years ago, coinciding with the major transition from the Last Glacial Stage to the Holocene.

Deposits that settled in between glacial stages could have been eroded away by the next incursion of ice, Hanson said, while the loess may have washed out of a valley formed by a glacier, or been ...

Researchers have discovered more than 1,700 ancient viruses lurking deep inside a glacier, many of which had never been seen before. But don't worry, these viruses can't infect people.

The most distinct community of viral species on the glacier appeared about 11,500 years ago, coinciding with the major transition from the Last Glacial Stage to the Holocene.

Scientists have found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before, from an ancient Tibetan glacier.