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Nature 19 min

The Library Made of Ice

Every glacier is a library. The melt is burning the books.

Every glacier is a layered archive of the climate it lived through, recording pollen, ash, trapped air, and ancient microbes in datable annual layers. The melt is not just lost ice. It is lost data, much of it never read.

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