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Scientists dare to venture into remote ice caves that grow under Austria’s ice caps to investigate why they are melting faster than expected and to understand the fate of glaciers elsewhere, if climate change does not halt.
The ominous blue caves beneath them hold clues about how the ice – which has formed and melted over millennia – broke down much quicker than expected.
Such changes could help communities that depend on glaciers elsewhere in the world to better manage their rebound.
It is too late to save the glaciers of Eastern Alps that scientists now say have passed the point for ever, and that by the next few decades will have disappeared entirely.
Jamtalferner (“Jamtalferner”) is one of Austria’s 30 largest glaciers and one of 10 where scientists perform very accurate annual measurements to document the irreversible decline that has now occurred.
