Scientists Conduct Annual Monitoring Of Pasterze Glacier

The Pasterze is losing length and depth in a process that has accelerated to a record degree over the past ten years, with a loss of 87.4 meters in length and 14.7 million cubic meters of ice in 2022 alone. While Austria's glaciers have been steadily receding since the Little Ice Age of the mid 19th-century, periods of intermittent glacier growth extended into the 1980s. Since then the glaciers have been receding rapidly, with the pace of melting having accelerated sharply in the last decade. According to scientists, global warming is extending and intensifying the summer melting season of the glaciers. In addition, diminished annual snowfalls are leaving the glaciers more exposed to the sun and preventing the formation of new ice. | September 12-13, 2023 | ⁠#GettyImages #GettyImagesNews #EarthDay
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