Scientists in the Arctic are in the hustle to preserve "ice memory"

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Scientists started camping in the Arctic and are set to start drilling to save the samples of ancient ice for analysis so that it can be Done before the frozen layer melts away due to climate change, mission organizers said on April 3.

The race has been called against time to preserve the crucial ice records for analyzing past environmental conditions and is planning to send them to the Antarctic for storage by Italian, French, and Norwegian researchers present in Norway's Svalbard archipelago.

Glaciers present in high latitudes, such as those in the Arctic, have started melting at a high rate said paleoclimatologist Carlo Barbante, vice-chairman of the Ice Memory Foundation that is running the mission.

"We want to recover and preserve, for future generations of scientists, these extraordinary archives of our Planet's climate before all the information they contain is completely lost."

Ice memory said that eight specialists have set up camp at the altitude of 1,100 meters on the crevasse-ridden Holtedahlfonna ice field and the plan is to start drilling it on Tuesday.

They will extract in the series of tubes from as far as 125 meters ( 137 yards) below the surface, which contains frozen geochemical traces dating back three centuries. The valuable data will be found in the deep "ice cores".

AFP told that Jerome Chapellaz president of an ice memory foundation is running an operation. “It is our responsibility as glaciologists of this generation to make Sure a bit of it is preserved."

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