Italian Glaciers Melt Continues

14th December 2024

Italian glaciers continued to retreat due to climate change in 2024, according to a new report.

‘The effects of the climate crisis on glaciers, the Alpine environment and biodiversity’ was produced by the Glaciological Committee & Cipra Italia and has been unveiled at the Bicocca University, Milan.

Alpine glaciers are increasingly thinner and almost all in strong retreat across the entire Alpine arc, with significant impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, said the report.

The largest glacier in the Italy, the Adamello, recorded a loss of thickness in the frontal sector of three meters and melting effects up to 3,100m above sea level in 2024.

Others are not doing well:

• The Careser glacier has an average loss of thickness of 1.90m
• The Vedretta di Ries Glacier has seen a 1.7m loss
• The Vedretta Lunga Glacier has lost 1.5m