Back when the three
domains of life were emerging, a large DNA virus very much like Mimi may have made its way inside a bacterium or an archaean and,
rather than killing it, harmlessly persisted there.
As the title suggests, it mainly deals with the projected decline
of snow cover
rather than
of glaciers, and it does say that «approximately one - sixth
of the world's population
lives within this snowmelt - dominated, low - reservoir - storage
domain».