Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures
Santiago, Chile Reuters Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile’s Patagonia region in an event captured on video by tourists. In a video that went viral Monday, a glacier that sits atop a mountain about 200 metres high rumbled […]
Alien world under Austria’s doomed glaciers tells tale of their collapse
Jamtalferner Glacier, AustriaReuters Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria’s doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected, and understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted. It is already too late to save the glaciers of the eastern Alps, which scientists now say are past the point of no […]
POSTCARDS: ON THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE WORLD’S NORTHERNMOST TOWN
ALEX FRASER, of Reuters, reports from Longyearbyen in Svalbard in Norway…
“Only you know” if we did enough, says memorial to Iceland’s lost glacier
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Iceland’s first glacier to be lost to rising temperatures is to be marked with a memorial carrying a grim warning about the impact of climate change if the world fails to act on time. “In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” reads a plaque […]