For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

There Are Giant Viruses on Ice Sheet’s Surface in the Arctic—But That’s a Good Thing It sounds like something out of a horror film, but it could actually be helping combat climate change.

Arctic ice is shrinking by 13 per cent a decade, but newly discovered giant viruses could help slow some of the decline. It sounds like something from a sci-fi blockbuster: giant viruses are ...

These ‘giant’ viruses could be a solution to melting Arctic ice Algae blooms can increase the rate at which Arctic ice melts. But a newly discovered virus might stop the blooms from spreading.

Hordes of giant viruses are living on the world’s second-largest body of ice — and may be slowing the impacts of climate change. Scientists announced the discovery in a recent paper on the ...

While giant viruses have been found in the ocean, this is the first time they've been seen on surface ice and snow with microalgae. Each spring, algae blooms on Arctic ice, causing it to darken.

Sea ice loss is not only damaging to wildlife, plants and the roughly 4 million people who live in the Arctic — it has global consequences. Sea ice acts like a giant mirror, reflecting the ...

If these viruses are infecting Arctic algae, they might provide a curb on one of the lesser-known contributors to the shrinking of our polar ice caps: several species of algae known collectively ...

“Giant viruses play a role there in terminating the algae.” If the viruses are keeping the algae population in check on the Greenland ice sheet, he said, that would mean they are allaying ...