Scientists race to reveal melting glaciers' secrets
Jumping from rock to rock to rock over a creek formed off Austria’s Jamtal Glacier, scientist Andrea Fischer worries that precious scientific data will be irreversibly lost as the snow and ice melt faster than ever. “I couldn’t have imagined that it would ever melt as dramatically as this summer... Our ‘archive’ is melting away,” the glaciologist says. Fischer — vice director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences — has spent...
Andrea Fischer Gottlieb Lorenz Violeta Lauria Sarah Mattle Alpine Club Institute For Interdisciplinary Mountain Research
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