The Climate Footprint that Melts with Chilean Glaciers

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At the top of the mountain range or in the depths of the white continent, glaciers have functioned for millennia as a silent archive of the planet. Each layer of ice contains a history: dust particles, volcanic ashes, traces of forest fires and, above all, air bubbles that encapsulate the composition of the atmosphere of another time.These records have allowed science to reconstruct what the climate was like thousands of years ago.But that uniqu…