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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthias Schrader

AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria's melting glaciers are in their final decades

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

High up on an Alpine ridge beneath a ceiling of ice, water drips from above into a cave formed by the slowly shrinking Jamtalferner glacier.

In just a few years, Jamtalferner will be gone, and in a few decades, so might the rest of Austria's glaciers as human-caused climate change warms up the world.

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