Members of "Pamir Ice memory" expedition are on the way to load a fridge truck with the cooler boxes containing ice core samples, at the foot of Pamir Glacier in Kon Chukurbash, eastern Tajikistan on September 25, 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)