
Snowless Alps
A ski lift passes over Kitzbuehel, Austria's, snowless terrain Dec. 15, 2006. Uncommonly warm winter weather has left many European ski resorts high and dry. A University of Innsbruck study released Jan. 22 suggests that due to an average 3 percent decrease in Alpine ice, glaciers in the Alps will melt away by 2050.Getty Images
Jan 22nd 2008 @ 12:11PM





