The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
The preservation quality that the glacial ice provided is the product of specific physical and chemical conditions that the retreating ice had maintained for centuries.
Those conditions are changing.
As the glaciers of the Tatshenshini-Alsek region and the broader North Pacific coastal system retreat — a process that has been dramatically accelerating in recent decades — the material preserved within them is being released.
Some of that material will be preserved long enough to be found and studied.
Some will be exposed and then rapidly degraded by the elements before anyone can reach it.
The melting of glaciers in the context of climate change is not just an environmental story.
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