Geologists in Austria have warned that the country’s glaciers have started melting at an unprecedented rate and could disappear altogether by 2050.
Austria’s Pasterze glacier. Image by Reisender1701 / CC BY-SA 2.0
The Pasterze glacier, which lies beneath the Grossglockner mountain, shrunk by a full 10m this year. The shrinkage is being blamed on global warming, and there are fears that the loss of the glaciers could damage the ski industry in future.
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