Glaciers across Europe have been receding since the 1870s, but the process has accelerated since the early 1980s, a phenomenon widely attributed to global warming. Photographer Sean Gallup documented this alarming decline at the Aletsch and Rhone glaciers in Switzerland and the Pasterze and Waxeggkees glaciers in Austria | 📷: seangallup | #GettyImagesNews⁠ . . ⁠ Getty Images is participating in #CoveringClimateNow, a project co-founded by columbiajournalismreview and nationmag aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis. Join us all week as we highlight some of the best climate change and environmental stories we’ve done recently in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23.⁠ . . . ⁠ #climatechange #environment #nature #earth #globalwarming #sustainability #sustainable #savetheplanet #unitednationsclimatechange