Feb 6, 2017
On the edge of a frozen lake in Russia is the world’s first ice library. The structure consists of ice blocks molded into walls, forming a labyrinth. Etchings of more than 1,000 short phrases are...
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On the edge of a frozen lake in Russia is the world’s first ice library. The structure consists of ice blocks molded into walls, forming a labyrinth. Etchings of more than 1,000 short phrases are...
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So it's come to this.
The ongoing effects of climate change mean that the amount of ice covering Earth is shrinking, and a team of scientists has taken it upon themselves to store and catalogue as many types of as possible before it's gone.
You might not think that ice blocks from different parts of the world are all that different, but they contain invaluable data about long-term changes in the surrounding temperature and air quality - information that's essential to understanding our planet.
Researchers from the Protecting Ice Memory project, drawn from the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, are launching the mission this month by taking a sample from the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps.
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