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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...

It ended on Friday the 13th the occupation of the construction site of work on the Girosa glacier, in France, after a week of mobilization in 3400 meters of height which blocked the construction works of the third section of the La Greve cable car.In fact, about a fortnight earlier, the barracks for the workers, the first machinery and an excavator for the installation of a cable car pylon had arrived by helicopter.The camp, how they write on their site the occupants belonging to the network of Soulèvement de la Terre, the radical ecological movement that the French government attempted to dissolve a few months ago, "testifies to the desire to put an end to the exploitation and artificialisation of the mountains, from the lands of the valleys to the glaciers.” The objective was also to make it clear that new resistance camps could return in the spring if the project is not definitively abandoned. Around 300 people passed through the site:the camp held up despite threa...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The world is racing "on the highway that leads straight to climate hell with its foot pressed on the accelerator". He didn't mince words the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference which is being held this year in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to define the gravity of the situation facing the planet and give meaning the urgency of the actions to be taken.Looming in the background are the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the rising cost of living and growing global tensions. “We need a climate solidarity pact between developed and emerging economies:either they work together to make a historic deal that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a low-carbon path, or we will have failure, which will mean climate collapse and catastrophe,” Guterres added.“It is...