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First global repository of ice cores: How Antarctica scientists are preserving ice samples from melting glaciers; why is it important? |

Scientists in Antarctica have inaugurated the world’s first global repository of mountain ice cores, aiming to preserve vital records of Earth’s atmospheric history as glaciers rapidly melt due to global warming.The frozen sanctuary was opened on Wednesday at the Concordia research station on the Antarctic Plateau by the Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European […]

‘Unbelievable’: Body found almost intact after 28 years in Pakistan’s melting glacier – How did it happen?

The body of a man missing for 28 years has been discovered in a melting glacier in Pakistan’s remote Kohistan region. A shepherd, identified as Omar Khan, came across the well-preserved remains, clothing still intact, in the Lady Valley, located in the country’s eastern mountains.“What I saw was unbelievable,” Omar was quoted as saying by […]

What are the real impacts of melting glaciers?

Represenatative image (AP) The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts of planet Earth.When the melting Birch Glacier on crumbled on Wednesday, it engulfed the picturesque village of Blatten in the country’s southern Wallis region. A mound of debris has […]