The Air Liquide Foundation has allocated a €100,000 ($114,000) grant to pay some of the expenses of the Grenoble Alps University Foundation’s ‘ICE MEMORY’ project which aims to create sanctuary for high-altitude glacier ice cores in Antarctica.
The ice from mountain glaciers is a treasure trove of information on past changes in climate and the environment, from temperature variations to greenhouse gas concentrations and pollutants, etc. Over the last few decades, non-polar ice core drilling has allowed scientists to study the recent climate in great detail.
In addition, non-polar ice core drilling has provided unique insight into the increase in pollution over the past century, illustrating regional variations and characterising the origin of this pollution.
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