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Glaciers

High microbial diversity in glacial habitats uncoupled from the specialized microbiomes of resident chironomid fauna

Valeria Lencioni, Alessandra Tondello, Isabel Martinez-Sañudo, Saptarathi Deb, Lucia Giagnoni, Augusto Zanella, Giuseppe Concheri, Piergiorgio Stevanato, Luca Mazzon, Andrea Squartini

published 08 Jan 2026

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Spatiotemporal variation characteristics and influencing factors of snow density in the High Mountain Asia from 1960 to 2023

Zhankun Wang, Dong Cui, Baofu Li, Haijun Liu

published 16 Dec 2025

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Unveiling hidden threats: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pollution in the glacial waters of the Meili Snow Mountains in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Xinyu Wen, Huawei Zhang, Hucai Zhang, Guangchao Liang, Binbin Ren, Wei Peng, Yan Yao, Mengshu Zhu

published 16 Oct 2025

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A nonlinear polycrystalline ice elastoplastic contact model and its application

Xiaolin Li, Ge Zhang, Xinyi Chen

published 27 Jun 2025

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Extant life detection using label-free video microscopy in analog aquatic environments

Carl D. Snyder, Manuel Bedrossian, Casey Barr, Jody W. Deming, Chris A. Lindensmith, Christian Stenner, Jay L. Nadeau

published 12 Mar 2025

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Comparison of Yamuna (India) and Mississippi River (United States of America) bacterial communities reveals greater diversity below the Yamunotri Glacier

Osvaldo Martinez, Silas R. Bergen, Jacob B. Gareis

published 05 Jul 2024

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Molecular and morphological characterisation of larvae of the genus Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Alpine streams (Ötztal Alps, Austria)

Martin Dvorak, Isabel L. Dittmann, Veronika Pedrini-Martha, Ladislav Hamerlík, Peter Bitušík, Evzen Stuchlik, Daniel Vondrák, Leopold Füreder, Reinhard Lackner

published 15 Feb 2024

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Early onset of aridity in the past millennium: Insights from vegetation dynamics and climate change in the alpine, cold-desert region of Trans Himalaya, India

Ruchika B. Mohanty, Amit K. Mishra, Kriti Mishra, Akhilesh K. Yadava, M. Firoze Quamar, Iswar C. Barua, Ratan Kar

published 10 Jan 2024

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Ecological risk evaluation and sensitivity analysis of heavy metals on soil organisms under human activities in the Tibet Plateau, China

Xia Zeng, Cai Deng, Ying Liang, Juanlin Fu, Shaoxuan Zhang, Tianhua Ni

published 03 Aug 2023

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Ground-based measurements of the weather-driven sky radiance distribution in the Southern Hemisphere

Raúl R. Cordero, Sarah Feron, Edgardo Sepúlveda, Alessandro Damiani, Jose Jorquera, Penny M. Rowe, Jorge Carrasco, Juan A. Rayas, Pedro Llanillo, Shelley MacDonell, Gunther Seckmeyer

published 14 Jun 2023

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Water sources and composition of dissolved gases and bubbles in a saline high Arctic spring

Dale T. Andersen, Christopher P. McKay, Wayne H. Pollard, Margarita M. Marinova

published 03 Apr 2023

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Climate change and spatio-temporal trend analysis of climate extremes in the homogeneous climatic zones of Pakistan during 1962-2019

Firdos Khan, Shaukat Ali, Christoph Mayer, Hamd Ullah, Sher Muhammad

published 27 Jul 2022

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Multilocus sequence based identification and adaptational strategies of Pseudomonas sp. from the supraglacial site of Sikkim Himalaya

Srijana Mukhia, Anil Kumar, Poonam Kumari, Rakshak Kumar, Sanjay Kumar

published 24 Jan 2022

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