(UNESP - 2007)
MELTDOWN: THE ALPS UNDER PRESSURE (Excerpt 1)
Around mid-June the Pitztal Glacier in Austria goes on summer vacation. That is to say, it begins to melt, racing down Tyrolean mountainsides in frigid streams that eventually lose themselves, like Europeans in August, at a beach so...
(Unesp 2007)
MELTDOWN: THE ALPS UNDER PRESSURE (Excerpt 2)
"High-altitude regions seem to be more sensitive to the climate warming, and the retreat of glaciers is one sign," says Martin Beniston, a climate specialist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. "During Roman times it...