Tomorrow Today # Climate Change - the End of the Permafrost # 25.05.2009
Kay HagedornMay 25, 2009
As the earth's atmosphere warms up, ice and snow masses are shrinking. On the Zugspitze this effect can be seen with the naked eye. The glacier on the mountain has receded drastically in the past few years, and experts estimate that in one or two decades it may have disappeared altogether.