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Historians found a WWI bunker 'frozen in time' in the Alps. Climate change makes it a ...
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Historians found a WWI bunker ‘frozen in time’ in the Alps. Climate change makes it a bittersweet discovery.
The Stelvio Pass area in Italy, with the glaciers of the Ortler Alps in the background. (Courtesy of Stelvio National Park/Enrico Bigno Pozzi)
By Adela Suliman
Today at 8:57 a.m. EST
Tucked within an icy mountain lies a meticulously preserved World War I bunker.
Climate change means we can now see it.
The intact cavern-cum-barracks contains munitions, books, cigarette holders and animal bones, and it was once teeming with Austro-Hungarian troops. They staked out on Mount Scorluzzo, almost 3,000 meters (about 9,800 feet) above sea level, on the Italian-Swiss border, now part of Italy’s Stelvio National Park territory.
“These places were literally frozen in time,” Giovanni Cadioli, a historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua in Italy, told The Washington Post.
Now, he added, climate change is playing a “pivotal role” in their discovery, as warming temperatures have led to the melting of glaciers and permafrost, revealing a “time capsule.”
Amid the backdrop of the COP26 global climate change summit in Scotland, Cadioli underscored that the impressive findings were bittersweet: “We’d really rather not have retreating glaciers.”
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By Adela Suliman
Adela Suliman is a breaking-news reporter in The Washington Post's London hub. Twitter https://twitter.com/Adela_Suliman
Historians found a WWI bunker ‘frozen in time’ in the Alps. Climate change makes it a bittersweet discovery.
The Stelvio Pass area in Italy, with the glaciers of the Ortler Alps in the background. (Courtesy of Stelvio National Park/Enrico Bigno Pozzi)
By Adela Suliman
Today at 8:57 a.m. EST
Tucked within an icy mountain lies a meticulously preserved World War I bunker.
Climate change means we can now see it.
The intact cavern-cum-barracks contains munitions, books, cigarette holders and animal bones, and it was once teeming with Austro-Hungarian troops. They staked out on Mount Scorluzzo, almost 3,000 meters (about 9,800 feet) above sea level, on the Italian-Swiss border, now part of Italy’s Stelvio National Park territory.
“These places were literally frozen in time,” Giovanni Cadioli, a historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua in Italy, told The Washington Post.
Now, he added, climate change is playing a “pivotal role” in their discovery, as warming temperatures have led to the melting of glaciers and permafrost, revealing a “time capsule.”
Amid the backdrop of the COP26 global climate change summit in Scotland, Cadioli underscored that the impressive findings were bittersweet: “We’d really rather not have retreating glaciers.”
{snip}
By Adela Suliman
Adela Suliman is a breaking-news reporter in The Washington Post's London hub. Twitter https://twitter.com/Adela_Suliman
