Every year Earth’s glaciers vanish a little bit more. It’s a harsh reality that the time is coming that some of the majestic ice pillars may disappear completely with no trace left of their existence.
An international team of scientists wants to make sure that at least some pieces of these glaciers are preserved for future generations to study. According to a report from IFLScience, the Ice Memory Project will be saving ice cores from the endangered glaciers in a sanctuary in Antarctica.
“In the coming decades, or even the coming centuries, these samples will be invaluable — be it for entirely unprecedented scientific discoveries or for understanding local changes in the environment,” Nobel…
