Home minister cites 3.5 million foreigners as reason to stop automatic citizenship for permanent residents’ kids, insists won’t make them statelessBy 2071–2100, average annual snow cover days were predicted to decline most in the Australian Alps . — nattrass/Getty Images/ETX Studio picBERLIN, March 27 — Researchers in Germany set out to determine which alpine region of the world is most likely to lose its snow cover as a result of global warming.
Of all the regions studied, the Australian Alps are likely to experience the greatest snow loss in the world by the end of the century. This is the conclusion of a study published in the journal, which looked at the reduction of snow cover in various mountain ranges around the world as a result of climate change.
“Within all major skiing regions, snow cover days are projected to decrease substantially under every assessed climate change scenario. Thirteen per cent of all current ski areas are projected to completely lose natural annual snow cover and one fifth will experience a reduction of more than 50 per cent by 2071-2100 relative to historic baselines,” note the authors of the study. Australia is by far the most affected region.
In recent years, there has been an increasing number of studies warning of the loss of snow cover on mountain peaks. Research carried out in Italy, published in the journalin January 2023, estimates, for example, that in part of the Alps, the loss of snow cover between 1971 and 2019 amounts to 5.6 per cent per decade. — ETX Studio