10,000 years ago, retreating glaciers shaped the landscape of western Norway into what we see today. Tall mountains and deep fjords have inspired artists and drawn tourists to the area for hundreds of years. But how does the Folgefonna glacier, Norway’s third largest, shape the surrounding landscape today? When scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research created a model that used a 3,5 degree temperature increase, the results show that the entire glacier will be gone in 100 years. What could this change bring to the landscape?
