This picture shows Japan's Glaciologists Ken Kondo (R) and Koji Fujita from Nagoya University packing a "carrot" of ice near Russia's Scientist Stas Kutuzov as part of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" at the Pamir glacier, in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tajikistan 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)