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Collapsed glacier in the Italian Alps: "The warming is twice as fast as the average"

2022-07-04T14:28:45.921Z


The collapse of part of the Marmolada glacier this Sunday, which caused the death of six people, is a direct effect of the rise


Italian rescuers had little hope on Monday July 4 of finding possible survivors after the collapse due to a heat wave of part of the Marmolada glacier, the largest in the Italian Alps, which killed at least six people. and eight wounded.

The disaster occurred the day after a record temperature of 10°C at the top of the glacier, weakened by global warming for decades.

The explanations of Ludovic Ravanel, geomorphologist at the CNRS.

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Source: leparis

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