Year on year temperature increases of up to four degrees centigrade have been discovered at an Austrian national park.Upper Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Governor Josef Pühringer and nature protection councillor Manfred Haimbuchner of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) said today (Weds) average temperature had risen at most checkpoints at the Kalkalpen national park by 2.1 degrees […]
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Austrian glaciers are shrinking
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Environmental alarm bells are ringing as the vast majority of Austrias glaciers shrunk last year.Andrea Fischer of the Austrian Alps Society (OeAV) said today (Fri) studies have shown that 91 per cent of the countrys glaciers diminished in size in 2009.Fischer said the Niederjochferner decreased most drastically by 46 metres, followed by the Kesselwandferner (minus […]