Italian glaciers continued to retreat
due to climate change in 2024, Legambiente said Wednesday.
Alpine glaciers Alpine glaciers are increasingly thinner and
almost all in strong retreat across the entire Alpine arc, with
significant impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, said the
fifth annual report of Carovana dei glaciai entitled "The
effects of the climate crisis on glaciers, the Alpine
environment and biodiversity", produced in collaboration with
the Glaciological Committee and Cipra Italia and presented in
Milan at the Bicocca University.
The "symbolic glacier" of 2024 is the Adamello, the largest
glacier in the Italian Alps, which in 2024 recorded a loss of
thickness in the frontal sector of 3 meters and melting effects
up to 3100 meters above sea level, the report said.
The circular collapses due to the contraction of the glacial
mass are expanding.
A photo taken in September is emblematic: with the front of its
tongue completely uncovered, despite the 6 meters of snow
measured in late spring on the Pian di Neve del Ghiacciaio.
The Careser glacier (Ortles-Cevedale Group) is not doing well
either, with an average loss of thickness of 190 centimeters,
and in Alto Adige the Vedretta Lunga Glacier (Val Martello) and
the Vedretta di Ries Glacier (Valle Aurina) with a loss of
thickness on the tongues between one and a half and two meters,
just to name a few.
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