Chief of Expedition Evan Miles of "Pamir-Ice-Memory" expedition addresses a briefing before reaching the Pamir Glacier, in Dushanbe, eastern Tajikistan on September 8, 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)