PhotosAlarming Signs Of Climate Crisis: Rapid Melting Threatens Glaciers In Austrian and Italian Alps, Revealing Disturbing Changes Near Innsbruck
Alarming Signs Of Climate Crisis: Rapid Melting Threatens Glaciers In Austrian and Italian Alps, Revealing Disturbing Changes Near Innsbruck
Alpine glaciers near Innsbruck, Austria, and in South Tyrol, Italy, exhibit alarming signs of rapid melting, pointing to the pressing impact of the climate crisis on these iconic landscapes.
Updated: 02 Oct 2023 10:58 am
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The Stubai Glacier ski area with water reservoirs for ski lifts are visible near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Sulzenauferner Glacier is visible near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Tiefenbachferner Glacier, part of glacier ski resort Soelden, with Wildspitze mountain is visible near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Becherhaus mountain hut sits in front of Vipiteno in South Tyrol, Italy.
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A ski lift station, bottom right, sits on a mountain in the Alps in Obergurgl near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Gaisskarferner Glacier is visible near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Gamsspitzl mountain with Freigerferner Glacier is visible near Innsbruck, Austria. The glacier split in two parts, and both are hollow. The big cavities indicate that warm air is streaming through the glacier base, causing additional melt and eventually leading to a collapse of the flat ice sheet.
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The Schaufelferner Glacier at the Stubai ski area sits near Innsbruck, Austria. The platforms below show snow cannons and the prescribed grooves to drain the water so that the slope does not erode.
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The Sulzenauferner Glacier at the Stubai ski area is visible near Innsbruck, Austria.
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The Sulzenauferner Glacier is visible from a plane near Innsbruck, Austria. The crevasses in the Sulzenauferner form where the ice flows over irregularities in the ground below.