Scientists race to decode data from Europe’s vanishing glaciers
via frontiersin.org
Short excerpt below. Read at the original source.
High up in the Ötztal Alps, near the border of Austria and Italy, sprawls the closest thing you can get — scientifically, at least — to a time machine. For thousands of years, snow has fallen here and turned to ice, building layer upon layer of the Weißseespitze glacier and archiving invaluable information. For instance, […]