""The scientists do this by drilling a borehole and extracting long, cylinder-shaped ice cores. These are essentially centuries-old libraries containing records of preindustrial greenhouse gases...""
""A glacier is like a book made up of many pages, said Jacopo Gabrieli... It's like throwing a glass of water on an old manuscript and watching the ink quickly dissolve.""
A team of scientists from Venice's Ca' Foscari University and Italy's national research council is conducting a 12-day expedition at 4,100m in the Swiss Alps. They aim to extract ice cores from the rapidly melting Corbassiere glacier, which acts as a historical climate record. These cores hold invaluable data about past climate conditions, human impact, and atmospheric changes dating back millennia. The harsh, sub-zero conditions underscore the urgency of their mission to collect this critical information before the glacier is completely lost to climate change.
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