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00:00What if critical climate data disappears before we can use it?
00:04For thousands of years, glaciers have stored a record of the Earth's climate and atmospheric history,
00:10trapped deep inside the ice.
00:12But global warming is destroying that archive as glaciers melt.
00:15In an effort to preserve that record, scientists have extracted ice cores over the past decade,
00:21from the Alps to the Andes.
00:22Many of those cores are now going into storage in a vast frozen chamber
00:26newly built in the depths of Antarctica.
00:30French and Italian scientists working on the ice memory project
00:33say the samples will be preserved for centuries to come,
00:37in one of the coldest and remotest spots on the planet.
00:41The course will help scientists understand how past ecosystems responded to climate stress
00:46and help them build better climate models and strategies for the future.
00:51The long-term governance of the vault and the trove of information stored inside it
00:55is yet to be decided.
00:56But in a world where climate scientists increasingly contested,
01:00the project founders say that the cave and its content
01:03should be an eternal sanctuary protected by international law.
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