Alpi

On the occasion of International Mountain Day, celebrated on 11 December, the fourth was presented Legambiente report and the Italian Geological Committee, Glacier Caravan 2023, the final work of the campaign which monitored the health of six glaciers along the entire Alpine range from August to September.The report shows how the climate crisis is hitting the ice sheets of the Alps hard: 2023 was a record negative climate year, with heat peaks at high altitudes, zero temperatures on peaks above 5000 meters and 144 extreme weather events recorded in the Alpine regions since January.The number of extreme events from 2010 to 2022 rises to 632, with three regions – Lombardy, Veneto and Piedmont – among the most affected. The Belvedere Glacier is one of those chosen for the study:located in the Monte Rosa group, it is the largest in Piedmont.Its surface area has shrunk by 20% from the 1950s to today.In the last ten years it has lost 70 meters of thickness.The persistence of clim...