Frozen in time: Antarctic ice cave to be used to save melting glacier samples

Ice Memory Foundation's specially dug 'sanctuary' offers storage for cores, which hold thousands of years of historyLast month the Ice Memory Foundation opened the first ever sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, where samples will be stored for centuries to come.The cores, typically 10cm in diameter and a metre or more long, are stored in a specially excavated ice cave. The first to be laid down came from two Alpine glaciers that are rapidly shrinking. Continue reading...