Tag: glaciers
Evaluation of historical data: Swiss glaciers more than halved
Status: 08/22/2022 10:23 p.m For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the development of Swiss glaciers in the 20th century. Their observations are alarming: since 1931, the ice volume has…
Bavarian Alps: Why the glaciers are melting so quickly
Status: 08/20/2022 08:14 a.m Sahara dust, a lack of cold air, temperatures that are too high: the glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than in previous years. Why is…
Video: Glaciers are shrinking at record speed
STORY: Pictures of Germany’s highest glacier, the Scheeferner on the Zugspitze. These photos were taken in mid-August. In earlier years, there was still a decent layer of snow at this…
Glaciers in Bavaria: The end of the ice – Bavaria
The northern Schneeferner is not literally blank these days, its ice is too interspersed with dust and sand. The highest glacier in Germany on the Zugspitzplatt has not had a…
The German glaciers are currently shrinking at record speed
Unusually high temperatures The German glaciers are shrinking at record speed – one could disappear completely this year Blank ice on the northern Schneeferner. The ice on the Blaueis Glacier…
Climate crisis: Sahara sand is melting glaciers
Status: 08/11/2022 09:29 am The glaciers in the Alps are currently melting faster than ever before. One reason is the current heat wave. But the decisive factor this year is…
Climate change: extreme melt accelerates death of German glaciers
climate change Extreme melt accelerates death of German glaciers Blankeis is on the northern Schneeferner. The ice on the Blaueis glacier, the Schneeferner on the Zugspitze and the Höllentalferner has…
Climate change: extreme melt accelerates death of German glaciers
climate change Extreme melt accelerates death of German glaciers Stones and debris cover the bare ice of the southern Schneeferner in Bavaria. photo © Angelika Warmuth/dpa Not only people, but…
Heat waves accelerate the end of life of the glaciers of the Pyrenees
The two successive heat waves that France has just recorded have not spared the Pyrenees massif. And even less its symbolic glaciers whose melting has accelerated over the past two…
With the melting of the glaciers, the Swiss-Italian border has moved
How to lose your bearings. On the mountain was a refuge built in Italy, but the vagaries of climate change have moved the border on the glacier and two-thirds of…