The first World Day for Glaciers will be celebrated with a high-level event taking place in Paris 21 March 2025.
Glaciers: 10 % Of Earths Surface
Scientists have discovered the traces of the world’s oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting under the planet’s largest gold deposits in South Africa.
The finding suggests the presence of continental ice caps in the past and that either the area was closer to the poles, or that parts of the Earth may have been frozen in a previously unknown “snowball Earth” period of extreme cold weather.
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