Italy's Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely

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Italy's Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely  After 130 years of direct measurement, the retreat of Italy’s Ventina glacier will now be tracked by drones due to rapid melting and unstable terrain.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/08/19/italys-ventina-glacier-has-melted-so-much-geologists-now-can-only-monitor-it-remotely  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Italy's Ventina Glacier has now melted so much due to climate change to the point where geologists

00:06can only continue measuring it remotely. The Lombardy Glaciological Service says it will

00:11now use drone imagery to measure the annual retreat of the glacier and keep track of its

00:16ongoing shrinkage. Geologists, who've been measuring the glacier on-site for the past

00:21130 years, say it's far too dangerous for future in-person visits. The simple stakes planted on

00:28the glacier as a benchmark to measure its retreat are now buried under piles of rock slides and debris,

00:34rendering the terrain unsteady. The glacier has been in steady retreat since geologists first

00:39began measuring it in 1895. Experts say melting has accelerated on the Italian iceberg in recent years,

00:47having lost about 430 meters in the last decade alone, with nearly half of that since 2021.

00:53Italy's glaciers, primarily found in the country's north along the Alps and Dolomites,

00:59have been steadily receding due to inadequate snowfall in the winter and record-setting hot

01:04summers. The Lombardy Service says the Alps represent a climate hotspot, recording double

01:09the global average of temperature increases since pre-industrial times, resulting in a loss of 64%

01:16of alpine glacier volume.

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