Students of the Geographic Institut of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany) stand in front of a test windscreen, which they fixed on the Rhone glacier near the Furkapass mountain pass (2429 metres/7969 feet altitude) in the Swiss Alps August 20, 2008. The students, directed by Professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, are examining the influence of the windscreen on the temperature behaviour of the glacier, to check if it is possible to decelerate its melting process, caused by climate change. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 45 months ago

Students of the Geographic Institut of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany) stand in front of a test windscreen, which they fixed on the Rhone glacier near the Furkapass mountain pass (2429 metres/7969 feet altitude) in the Swiss Alps August 20, 2008. The students, directed by Professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, are examining the influence of the windscreen on the temperature behaviour of the glacier, to check if it is possible to decelerate its melting process, caused by climate change.

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