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World’s First Mountain Ice Core Repository
January 22 , 2026
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- Scientists inaugurated the world’s first global repository of mountain ice cores at Concordia Research Station on the Antarctic Plateau.
- The facility is called the Ice Memory Sanctuary, developed by the Ice Memory Foundation, a group of research institutions from France, Italy, and Switzerland.
- The ice vault is a cave made in compacted snow and maintained at –52 degrees Celsius to preserve ice cores for a long time.
- The first ice cores were taken from Mont Blanc in France and the Grand Combin massif in Switzerland and transported to Antarctica over 50 days.
- Ice cores act as atmospheric time capsules, keeping information about past climate, gases, dust, and pollutants.
- The Ice Memory project, started in 2015, has collected ice cores from 10 glacier sites worldwide and plans to expand storage for future research.
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