A record-warm summer likely accelerated the already rapid melting of Italy's high-altitude glaciers, revealing long-frozen artifacts.

A record-warm summer likely accelerated the already rapid melting of Italy’s high-altitude glaciers, revealing long-frozen artifacts.

Wasn’t on my “apocalyptic outcomes of melting permafrost” bingo card.

    • Jumi
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      2 days ago

      Those are ww1 artillery shells though. The Dolomites were on the frontline between Italy and Austro-Hungary. The alpine war is very interesting to read about, I highly recommend it.

      I don’t know by what percentage, which also fluctuated over the years and from nation to nation, but a lot of them were either duds or didn’t explode due to soft ground or angle of impact not triggering it.