As temperatures continue to sit at above-average heights in Austria and around the world, the impact of the prolonged summer heat is clear when looking at the 89 glaciers that call Austria home.

Austria’s largest glacier, the Pasterz, retreated by 177 feet in 2015, the survey found. Its volume has declined by half since it was first accurately measured in 1851.

JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (AP) — 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 ...

Ice caves are growing under Austria’s glaciers. Lisi Niesner/Reuters. The caverns that form a blue underground world are a testament to how the glaciers are melting from climate change faster ...

JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than ...

Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years as the process continues, experts said Friday.. The Austrian Alpine ...

WEISSSEESPITZE, Austria — Scientists are racing to read a rapidly melting archive of climate data going back thousands of years — the inside of Austria’s Alpine glaciers.

Glaciologists Andrea Fischer and Martin Stocker-Waldhuber, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, explore a natural glacier cavity of the Jamtalferner glacier near Galtuer, Austria, October 15, 2021.

Glaciers are masses of ice that form as snow and ice compact over centuries and then flow slowly over land. Their melting is one of the most notable indications of human-caused climate change ...

JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (Reuters) – Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria’s doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than ...