Friday Photo: Keeping cool

Fri, 06/05/2009 - 5:51pm

Workers cover the Zugspitze glacier with mets on June 3, 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze (2,962 metres), is getting a special shield to protect its glacier from melting.

Miguel Villagran/Getty Images

Joshua Keating | Permalink | | Comments? Login or register
( filed under: )


Advertisement

 

not exactly a tall one is it

by beezle on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:23pm

9700 feet? no wonder the snow keeps melting.

So Cool - Literally

by David Acai on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 3:22pm

This is such an interesting concept. Insulating the glaciers to try to stop the melting. I saw this on one of cable channels, Discovery maybe. Either way, very interesting.

Protect Environment??

by hoodiagordonii on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 3:41am

Protecting glaciers from melting is a new and amazing one. Is the glacier protects really?