US EditionIce Memory Foundation Opens Antarctic Sanctuary to Preserve the World’s Vanishing Glaciers | Science-Environment
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Ice core repository opens in Antarctica to preserve climate history
European researchers began operating the first global repository of mountain ice cores in Antarctica on Wednesday, aiming to preserve irreplaceable climate records as global warming accelerates glacier melt.The facility is located around the Concordia
The glaciers of the Alps melt. To preserve at least some of them, experts bring samples of the ice to Antarctica. One of the first ice cores comes from Mont Blanc.
In Antarctica, an international team of researchers has for the first time opened a protection archive for glacial ice in order to permanently secure ice samples threatened by climate change.In a cave that is up to minus 51 degrees cold, deep in the snow near the Concordia research station, two ice cores from Mont Blanc and the Grand Combin are now stored, further samples from the Andes, the Pamir and the Caucasus are to follow.Within 20 years a…
As the planet’s endangered glaciers merge at an unprecedented speed, an international project has begun to store in Antarctica the latest physical evidence of that millennial ice. The so-called Sanctuary of Ice Memory aspires to preserve glacier cylinders from all over the world so that future generations can study what is now about to be lost. A sanctuary in Antarctica to preserve the endangered glaciers A tunnel dug into the Antarctic ice will…
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