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1000s of People Protest Plans to Blow Up an Austrian Glacier to Merge 2 Ski Resorts

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Thousands of people took to the streets of Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday to protest the planned destruction of a glacier to connect the Pitztal Glacier and ร–tztal Glacier ski resorts in Tyrol, Austria. The plans involve exploding and removing more than 750,000 cubic metres of snow, rock and ice from the mountainside to create new ski slopes and services, reports [โ€ฆ]

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