Scientists from EPFL the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne, and ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading universities in science and technology in Switzerland as well as the University of Innsbruck in Austria, launch the “Glacier Stewardship Programme”, a new global initiative to preserve glaciers, in which more than twenty other universities and research insititute from all over the world participate.
Researchers decided to launch this global initiative to protect and preserve glaciers explaining in a statement that they store 70% of the Earth’s fresh waters, and adding that more than 200.000 glaciers around the world guarantee the supply of food and water for billion of people.
EPFL, the École Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, public research University in Lausanne, founded in 1969, one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technologies institutions, specialises in the natural sciences and engineering announced that this is the first initiative of its kind.
The aim of “Glacier Stewardship Programme”initiative is to develop innovative strategies to slow down the melting of glaciers locally, reduce the dangers associated with it and preserve the microbial biodiversity they contain.
Each molecule of greenhouse gas causes further melting of the ice, and EPFL researchers points out, that reducing CO2 emissions is crucial to saving glaciers, however more needs to be done to protect ice and its biodiversity and mitigate downstream effects.
In addition the programme will create, among other things, early warning systems and a biobank, a kind of zoo for microbes.
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