Race against time: Scientists store endangered glacier ice in Antarctica
Scientists are racing to preserve ice cores from endangered glaciers worldwide by storing them in an Antarctic ice sanctuary. The Ice Memory Foundation aims to protect vital climate records before rising temperatures cause irreversible glacier loss.
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00:29glaciers from the alpine regions and from the Tibetan Plateau or South America will be disappeared and so before that we plan to retrieve the ice and store it in Antarctica for the future generation of scientists.
00:44The ice containing the glacier are time machines that are extremely important to hold the information about what happened in the past and to put exactly in the right perspective to what is happening today.
01:083200 meters of elevation, 12,000 kilometers from the coast with an average temperature of minus 52 degrees. So the ideal place for the storage of such a kind of samples.
01:323200 meters the storage of such a kind of samples.
01:37How did you get this?
01:42Processed by phone in 2018
01:48and it's just about the 1.280 meters in the 90s.
01:51This is the 1.580 meters in the 80s and this is the 2.580 meters in the highest temperature of the ice.
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