The countdown for the Marmolada glacier, which began a long time ago, has accelerated in recent times and the glaciologists of the University of Padua, given in hand, risk a sentence: it could be no more than 15 years old. Ten years ago it lost 5 hectares of surface a year, in the last 3 it has gone to 9 hectares a year. The cause is not just the high temperatures, notes prof. Mauro Varotto: withdraws because the volume has thinned, it is no longer a living 'system', it begins to erode the surface and when the thickness is less than 1-2 meters the melting increases. "In the last 70 years - says Aldino Bondesan, coordinator of the glaciological campaigns for the Triveneto - it has lost more than 80% of its volume, from 95 million cubic meters in 1954 to 14 million today. The forecasts of its extinction are always approaching more. It could be no more than 15 years old. "
Marmolada glacier, for experts it has 15 years of life ahead
2020-08-31T17:39:37.917Z
Padua University, retirement has accelerated the last 3 years (ANSA)The countdown for the Marmolada glacier, which began a long time ago, has accelerated in recent times and the glaciologists of the University of Padua, given in hand, risk a sentence: it could be no more than 15 years old. Ten years ago it lost 5 hectares of surface a year, in the last 3 it has gone to 9 hectares a year. The cause is not just the high temperatures, notes prof. Mauro Varotto: withd