【特稿】保留地球冰冻记忆 南极一冰芯库启用

Group 1 - The world's first cold storage facility for high mountain ice cores has been officially opened in Antarctica, located near the Concordia Station operated by France and Italy [1] - The first batch of ice cores, taken from glaciers on Mont Blanc in France and the Grand Combin in Switzerland, was transported to Antarctica after a 50-day journey involving refrigerated icebreakers and planes [1] - The project, named "Ice Memory," is operated by a foundation consisting of research institutions from France, Italy, and Switzerland, aiming to extract and preserve ice cores from glaciers that are deteriorating or at risk of disappearing [1] Group 2 - A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change indicates that if climate change is not effectively addressed, the global glacier loss could accelerate from an average of 1,000 glaciers per year to between 2,000 and 4,000 glaciers per year by the 2040s [2] - The rapid decline of Earth's ice layers may lead to the loss of critical climate information contained within them [2]