This picture shows expedition chief Evan Miles (R) and Russia's paleoclimatologist and glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov, (L) taking a "carrot" of ice out of the Pamir glacier as part of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tadjikistan, on September 24, 2025. At more than 5,800 meters above sea level, an international team of scientists is drilling deep into the Pamir glaciers of Tajikistan to extract the region's first-ever deep ice cores to preserve the Earth's climatic memory before global warming erases it forever. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)