Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of Earth’s climate – and how viruses adapt to climate change https://www.byteseu.com/856952/ #AncientViruses #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateConditions #Earth’sHistory #Glaciers #GlobalWarming #GuliyaGlacier #IceCore #LonnieThompson #microorganisms #TheOhioStateUniversity #TibetanPlateau #ViralGenomes #VirusSpecies
In an ocean of bad news, here's some science excitement - the beyond EPICA team has announced they've drilled an ice core dating continuosly to 1.2 million years ago!! This core will give key information about the transition to the 100-000 year earth - the cycle of glacials and interglacials in which we currently live. So cool (pun intended).
#Antarctica #paleoclimate #IceIceBaby #IceCore #ClimateScience
Art and science intersect: "Little pieces of Antarctica were melting: cross-sections of an ice core...Artist Porras-Kim found another kind of collection, at the Ice Core Facility, where about 25,000 meters of ice are neatly stashed in metal tubes within a giant freezer kept at -38 C. About 2,000 meters a year are deaccessioned to make room for new samples; this is how Porras-Kim was able to obtain the cores for her exhibition." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/arts/design/gala-porras-kim-denver.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.iE0.anoK.bJYOABOBZBCE&smid=url-share #art #science #climate #icecore #museum
