With global glaciers melting at an unprecedented rate, scientists have raced to preserve ice cores for future study before they disappear altogether. Concordia station in Antarctica, where the Ice Memory Sanctuary is being built. The sanctuary aims to preserve and safeguard mountain ice core samples for future generations to study. WATCH | How the Ice Memory Sanctuary ice cave was built:As temperatures globally rise, glaciers are disappearing at a rapid clip, and with them goes critical information about the atmosphere: Since 2000, glaciers have lost between two per cent and 39 per cent of their ice regionally and about five per cent globally, the foundation said. "These ice cores are not relics — they are reference points," said Celeste Saulo, secretary general of the UN World Meteorological Organization.

Source: CBC News January 15, 2026 05:09 UTC