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Scientists Probe Tajik Glacier For Clues To Climate Resistance

Scientists try to find out why glaciers have resisted global warming in recent decades and whether this so-called "Karakoram anomaly" is ending.

Tadjikistan: Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last?

To find out, a dozen scientists, accompanied exclusively by an AFP photographer, trekked high over one glacier in eastern Tajikistan to drill for ice cores -- ancient, deep samples that can shed precious light on climate change.

In September and October, they first spent four days crossing the country from west to east in four-wheel driv

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