US Edition'Ice Memory' Project Preserves Glacier Samples in Antarctica
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'Ice Memory' project preserves glacier samples in Antarctica
ROME — Scientists in Antarctica last week inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to study as global warming melts glaciers around the world.
Q&A: An ice core library in Antarctica may save humanity's climate memory
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for safekeeping. This will allow, among other things, future generations to continue studying traces of past climates trapped under ice, as glaciers on every continent continue to thaw out at a fast pace.
An international team of researchers has opened, in Antarctica, the first ice archive from glaciers, informs DPA, quoted by Agerpres.
First of all, two ice cores from the Alps moved into the minus 51 degrees Celsius cold ice chamber.The samples from Mont Blanc and the Grand Combin are now stored in the 35-metre-long, five-metre-high and five-metre-wide cave. It is dug in the snow layers at the French-Italian research station Concordia. Ice blocks from the Andes, Pamir and the Caucasus are to follow. Within 20 years, 20 glacier samples are to be preserved, said one spokesperson…
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