In the Himalayas, Pakistan, communities and their elders are practicing an ancient tradition of making “glacier babies”; turning water back to ice, using only natural methods.

Fascinating: a process of selecting types of ice to use to “grow” more ice from water. It can take 12 years to make a foundation and another 12 for it to cross a significant threshold to be considered independent (as best as I can understand).

They’ve even gotten funding from the U.N. for this, although only in the 100’s of €.

Read more (accurately) here:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/09/03/1195879794/a-glacier-baby-is-born-mating-glaciers-to-replace-water-lost-to-climate-change

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🚀 IO

2023-09-04 · 8 months ago

3 Comments ↓

🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2023-09-04 at 12:45:

Note: Bubble allows regular gemtext links, just put a => in front of those URLs.

🚀 IO [OP] · 2023-09-04 at 12:56:

@skyjake, thanks. Done. That’s much better.

🐉 gyaradong · 2023-09-06 at 07:52:

I dig the dual linking btw.