Eighty per cent of Alpine glaciers at risk of disappearing by 2060: experts

As well, in 30-40 years’ time we will have increasingly intense droughts in the valley too, Greenpeace Italy and the CGI said at the conclusion of the first leg of their joint expedition to the Forni glacier in the Stelvio National Park in the Dolomites.

“[This glacier] is losing 50 per cent more thickness through melting than in 2022 and risks disappearing by 2060.

“From August 21 to 24 it lost 37 centimetres of ice thickness, which is more than the average, which was six centimetres per day,” Guglielmina Diolaiuti, a researcher at the CGI, said.

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