Paris – The Ice Memory project crosses the European borders and launches globally the challenge to save the most important ‘Library’ on the history of climate and environment: the ‘ice cores’ extracted from glaciers threatened by climate change that scientists are able to ‘decode’ with techniques more and more advanced. Born from an Italian-French idea thanks to Paleoclimatologists Carlo Barbante, director of the Institute for the dynamics of environmental processes of the National Research Council (CNR-IDPA) and professor at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, and Jérome Chappellaz of the CNRS, today the project involves scientists from the US, Russia, Bolivia, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Japan and China. In addition to Italian and French founders, scientists from around the world joined forces, under the auspices of UNESCO, which in recent days has taken them to Paris to ratify the partnership and planning the next, urgent missions. (9colonne)
