🪖It was once used by a platoon of Austro-Hungarian soldiers, but in the decades since was surrounded by a glacier.
The ice preserved everything – even scraps of paper, shreds of clothing and the hay that the soldiers used for bedding telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
A century on, the glacier that once entombed the bunker in the Italian Alps has largely melted as a result of global warming.
This frozen depository of the past now carries a stark warning for the future as leaders at #Cop26 deliberate how to try to put a brake on climate change
☀️“A hundred years ago this mountain was part of a glacier, you would only be able to see the rocks on the warmest days of August,” military historian, Giovanni Cadiol, told @Telegraph
Unless #COP26 can agree to curb greenhouse gas emissions and cap global warming at 1.5 degrees, the future of the Alps’ 4,000 glaciers is in doubt.
“The only way we can stop it is to reduce CO2 emissions – there’s no other way” said Davide Fugazza, a postdoctoral researcher
⚠️The loss of glaciers is likely to have a severe impact on drinking water, agriculture, industry and the generation of hydroelectric power.
“There is huge concern... we produce 13% of Italy’s hydroelectric power,” said Massimo Sertori, a politician for energy policy
🦌The retreat of the glaciers is also having an impact on wildlife and natural vegetation.
“There’s competition between species,” said Alessandro Nardo, director of Stelvio National Park.
In an adjoining valley, the once gigantic Forni glacier is also in trouble
While the melting of the ice is a disaster in so many ways - it has produced an unexpected bonanza for historians, exposing a trove of relics and remains from one of the First World War’s least-remembered fronts
⏳“It’s a time capsule. Everything has been perfectly preserved – clothing, books, stoves and ammunition,” said Mr Cadioli.
The campaign fought in these mountains between Italy's Alpini mountain troops and Austria-Hungary’s Kaiserjäger is known as the White War
An Austro-Hungarian bunker that was discovered on top of Monte Scorluzzo has been dismantled and will be reconstructed exactly as it was.
🏔️It is a race against time to preserve similar military positions that emerge from melting ice
“We have an opportunity but it is an opportunity that must be grasped very quickly...
“The traces must be preserved before the ice melts and it becomes impossible to scientifically analyse all the data that these places gift us,” said Cadioli telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Read more on what was discovered - and why it is so important👇
🔙The historic nature of Kamala Harris’s election as the first female vice president of the US seemed to creep up quietly.
Then, resplendent in suffragette purple, Harris drew every eye at the ceremony, Biden relegated to the role of supporting actor telegraph.co.uk/women/politics…
⭐️If this woman, the child of immigrants, the first black and south-Asian vice president elect, could go all the way to the top of US politics so could any little girl, anywhere
🇺🇸Exercise Green Dagger took place at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in the Mojave Desert in southern California.
The US forces asked for a “reset” half way into the five-day war fighting exercise, having suffered significant simulated casualties
➡️At one point, the commandos’ “kill board”, an intelligence assessment of the level of damage inflicted upon enemy equipment and units, had a tick against almost every American asset telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
London was uniquely positioned to take the lead on Sudan's transition to democracy - but unwisely ceded the initiative to Washington, writes @mutazamd.
Vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for the immunised.
🇳🇿New Zealand’s Covid policy has hit the headlines - with PM Ardern admitting that new covid restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society
Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not.
🔴A long-brewing crisis caused by drought, war and poverty has now been accelerated by the Taliban's shock takeover in August.
The militants' resumption of their Islamic emirate has been accompanied by a suspension of aid and now economic collapse telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
The World Food Programme estimates nearly 23 million of the country's 39m population are now unable to get regular access to enough food.