STUDY: Climate Change Releasing Unknown Viruses

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Ancient viruses trapped in glaciers for thousands of years could be released by climate crisis. John Iadarola, Maz Jobrani, and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT:

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“A new study of ice cores in glaciers in the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet reveals that the ice floes are holding viruses previously unencountered by humans, raising the possibility of the microbes being released as the climate crisis continues.

"We've opened up a Pandora's box with climate change," observed one Twitter user.

The report, "Glacier ice archives fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses," was published in the journal bioRxiv in early January by the scientists who examined the cores. It is awaiting peer review.

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The experiment revealed 33 groups of virus genuses (also known as genera) in the ice cores. Of these, 28 were previously unknown to science, the researchers said. "The microbes differed significantly across the two ice cores," the researchers wrote in the study, "presumably representing the very different climate conditions at the time of deposition."

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