Since the samples arrived in November, his team has worked in freezing storage facilities to log the density, alignment of snow grains, and the structure of ice layers. In December, when AFP visited, ...
A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...
Ice core samples taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan are stored in a -50 degree C storage room in Hokkaido, Japan The Kon Chukurbashi ice cap in the Pamir Mountains of ...
Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...