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Ancient snow patches melting at record speed

2015-02-06 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Norway is dotted with small glaciers and permanent snow patches that contain all sorts of archaeological treasures, from ancient shoes to 5000-year-old arrowheads. But climate change has turned up the temperature on these snowfields and they are vanishing at an astonishing rate. They actually shouldn't be found in Norway. Summers are too hot and winters too dry for glaciers or perennial snow patches to form here. Yet, the Kringsollfonna ice patch in S¸r-Tr¸ndelag county and the Storbreen glacier...

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