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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Emilio Parodi

Rising temperatures reawakening 'placid' Alpine glaciers

Punta Rocca summit is seen after parts of the Marmolada glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps amid record temperatures, killing at least six people and injuring several, at Marmolada ridge, Italy, July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic

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 fossilised sheets of ice.

Italy has been baking in an early summer heatwave and attention had been focused on the impact of drought on crops on the fertile Po Valley.

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