While the glacier collapses in Kyrgyzstan and Italy were much smaller (about 1,000 times smaller in volume than other deadly glacial collapses), Kargel said they probably also have a connection to ...

Italy is in the grips of a weeks-long heat wave, and Alpine rescuers said that the temperature at the glacier's altitude last week topped 10 C (50 F) when usually it should over around freezing at ...

Alpine Avalanche Leaves 7 Known Dead, 13 Missing in Italy The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy and people ski there in the winter ...

PRESENA GLACIER, Italy, July 1 (Reuters) - Battling to save northern Italy's Presena glacier from further shrinking, climate experts are covering it with long strips of cloth which will reflect ...

At least 6 killed after glacier collapses in Italian Alps 00:16. Rescuers warned Monday that hope of finding survivors was diminishing after an avalanche set off by the collapse of an Italian ...

ROME — A large chunk of an Alpine glacier broke loose Sunday and roared down a mountain in Italy, sending ice, snow and rock slamming into hikers on a popular trail on the peak and killing at ...

ROME, Italy — Thunderstorms hampered Monday the search for more than a dozen hikers who remained unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier in Italy broke off, sending an ...

Valerio Segor, a glacier expert in Valle d’Aosta, a region in northwestern Italy, told reporters on Friday ...

Rescuers prepare to conduct searches for the victims of the Punta Rocca glacier avalanche in Canazei, in the Italian Alps in northern Italy, on Tuesday, July 5. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) ...

Experts at Italy’s state-run CNR research centre, which has a polar sciences institute, have predicted the glacier will not exist within three decades as it is melted away by rising temperatures.

ROME – Experts were closely monitoring a Mont Blanc glacier on Friday, a day after they evacuated 75 tourists and residents amid fears the glacier could soon break apart and crash into a popular ...