Glaciers in Europe's Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous, as rising temperatures linked to climate change are reawakening what were long seen as dormant, almost fossilized sheets of ice. "This summer 2022 risks being the perfect storm for glaciers," said Giovanni Baccolo, an environmental scientist and glaciologist at Milano-Bicocca University in Milan, Italy. Incredible footage from an helicopter of the mountain rescue of the basal detachment in Marmolada. What happened on the Marmolada today concerns a glacier considered relatively risk-free.

Non-linear failure of small glaciers may become increasingly common in the near future. "The problem is that it may no longer be enough to read the signs from the glacier that have been read so far."

Source: CBC News July 04, 2022 21:44 UTC