Researchers led by Professor Ninglian Wang, Professor Xiangying Li and Professor Shiqiang Zhang in the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Northwest University (NWU) together with their collaborators have made a new breakthrough in the study of chemical weathering of glaciers and ice sheets. Their research, for the first time, presents globally elevated chemical weathering rates beneath glaciers and ice sheets, and reveals its temporal and spatial variations as well as the influence. The results have been published in Nature Communications, a top multidisciplinary journal in the world. This is also the first time that NWU has its research in geography published in this journal.
