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Tajikistan donates ice cores to study climate history

New Delhi: Tajikistan became the first country to donate two ice cores to the international scientific community -- one each to the Pamir Research programme and the Ice Memory sanctuary in Antarctica on Monday. This picture shows expedition chief Evan Miles (right) and Russia s paleoclimatologist and glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov, (left) taking a “carrot” of ice out of the Pamir glacier as part of the expedition in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tajikistan, on September 24 . (AFP) The ice cores were collected from the Kon Chukurbashi area of Pamir, one of the regions covered by what the scientific community calls the “Karakoram Anomaly”. Ice cores are a vertical column of ice extracted from...


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