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Melting Tibetan glaciers reveal 1,000 potentially dangerous microbes

July 4, 2022

Via: BGR

Global temperatures continue to rise, with melting glaciers everywhere sending more water into the oceans and land. Ancient permafrost has begun to soften and melt, opening up massive craters within the Earth. Another concern of the ongoing rising temperatures, though, is how melting glaciers, like some extreme Tibetan glaciers, could unleash species of possibly dangerous ancient microbes.

Scientists found nearly 1,000 new microbes living in extreme Tibetan glaciers

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