Just a couple of days ago, NASA announced that there is 40 percent less Arctic sea ice in the world than there was in the late 1970s. This followed the news that this January to June represented the hottest months in recorded history. For scientists who study the Earth's ice – a valuable recorder of the past – this means that their very archives are vanishing. To take action, the Protecting Ice Memory project was launched in 2015. Now it's about to get its first deposit.
.. Continue Reading Ice library to get its first frosty deposit from French mountainCategory: Environment
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