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Arctic researchers have detected signs of giant viruses living on the Greenland ice sheet that could help reduce some of the impacts of climate change.
"We don't know a lot about the viruses, but I think they could be useful as a way of alleviating ice melting caused by algal blooms,” study lead author Laura Perini, a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark, said in a statement. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.Researchers collected samples from dark ice, red snow and melting holes in different locations on the Greenland ice sheet in 2019 and 2020. They then analyzed the DNA found within those samples to identify sequences of genes with high similarities to giant viruses, which belong to the Nucleocytoviricota phylum.
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