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Alpine Glacier, Unchanged for Thousands of Years, Now Melting

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2013Environmentalpine glacier, climatic changes, eastern alps, european alps, european larch, frozen bedrock, gabrielli, glaciologist, global significance, italian alps, larix decidua, lonnie thompson, mary davis, mt ortles, northern italy, oetzi the iceman, ohio state university, paolo gabrielli, regional environmental changes

New ice cores suggest Alps have been strongly warming since 1980s

SAN FRANCISCO — Less than 20 miles from the site where melting ice exposed the 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman, scientists have discovered new and compelling evidence that the Italian Alps are warming at an unprecedented rate.

Part of that evidence comes in the form of a single dried-out leaf from a larch tree that grew thousands of years ago. (more…)

New Cores From Glacier in The Eastern European Alps May Yield New Climate Clues

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers are beginning their analysis of what are probably the first successful ice cores drilled to bedrock from a glacier in the eastern European Alps.

With luck, that analysis will yield a record of past climate and environmental changes in the region for several centuries, and perhaps even covering the last 1,000 years. Scientists also hope that the core contains the remnants of early human activity in the region, such as the atmospheric byproducts of smelting metals. (more…)

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Alpine Glacier, Unchanged for Thousands of Years, Now Melting

New Cores From Glacier in The Eastern European Alps May Yield New Climate Clues