"Loss of Climate Data Archive as Glaciers Melt"
The melting of the Corbassière glacier in the Grand Combin massif has rendered it unusable as a climate archive due to rapid glacier melting, washing away important climate data. This loss highlights the dynamic and unexpected nature of glacier melting, prompting concerns about the impact on other glaciers worldwide. The Ice Memory initiative aims to preserve ice cores from endangered glaciers in a global climate archive in Antarctica, but the race against time to collect these samples becomes more challenging as glacier melting accelerates.