Climate change has been increasingly melting the world's glaciers, creating a new danger for the town of Courmayeur, a resort community in Italy's Aosta Valley region, near the French border. The town was put on high alert on Wednesday as a block of ice estimated at about 500,000 cubic metres -- the size of the Milan cathedral, one official said -- from the Planpincieux glacier risked falling and threatening homes. "We are in a phase of slight improvement, the situation is a little better," he told AFP. "We cannot leave people under the threat of such an avalanche of ice," he told AFP. But Miserocchi said on Saturday that "the circulation of water under the glacier has resumed... it was this point that worried us a lot."

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 08, 2020 16:52 UTC