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The beautiful, spectacular and unique ice caves of the European Alps are some of the best in the world, and for thousands of years they have sat silently beneath the rocky mountainous landscape, coolly archiving information about changes to the environment above. These awe-inspiring, little-seen landscapes have historically been farmed for ice, and in the last century they have provided a source of tourism. Today though, they are threatened by warming temperatures, which are rising twice as fast in the Alps as compared to the global average. Over the last few decades, the ice has already declined rapidly, and this will continue into the future. The public are used to hearing about the loss of glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost and sea ice, but ice caves are also an important part of the cryosphere that will soon be a distant memory. Recently, they have also become an important avenue for scientific research, but the clock is ticking also for the scientists who are working to understand them. The University of Innsbruck, Austria is one of the main institutions for carrying out scientific research to better understand the past, current and future state of the European ice caves. Young scientists involved in this project are Tanguy Racine (https://quaternary.uibk.ac.at/People/Staff/Tanguy.aspx). Tanguy works on the project “Ice Cave-A Threatened Climate Archive in the Alps” (https://www.uibk.ac.at/acinn/research/atmospheric-dynamics/projects/ice-in-caves.html.en). Tanguy’s work focusses on understanding the analysis and interpretation of the climate record that the ice forms. For him and his colleagues, their scientific field is in its infancy, but time is running out too as the environment that they are trying to understand is fast disappearing. nside the Schneevulkanhalle in Schwarzmooskogel Eishöhle, some of the ice cones here used to be 15 stories high. Scientists are now racing to decipher the climate history stored in the ice before it melts into the surrounding pools. The eerie yellow glow seen in this photograph may result from light falling on soil-derived impurities in one ice cone. Pictured here, researchers Tanguy Racine and Chloe Snowling admire the yellow coloured ice formation.
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