The Marmolada is the highest peak in Italy’s northeastern mountain range and is known as the ‘Queen of the Dolomites’. Its spectacular glacier - the largest in the Dolomites - is a haven for ...

The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in that part of Italy, and people ski there during the winter months. But the glacier has been rapidly melting away in ...

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 ...

Italy has not approved new borders. Documenting and adjusting to glacier shrink is important in the Alps because the changes can change common mountain routes and damage their stability.

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 ...

Experts at Italy’s state-run CNR research center, which has a polar sciences institute, says the glacier won't exist anymore in the next 25-30 years and much of its volume is already gone.

Another 18 people trapped above the collapse will be evacuated by rescuers, SUEM said in its statement. The National Alpine and Cave Rescue Corps said in a statement that the glacier broke loose ...

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.

⚠️🇮🇹 A huge block has broken away from the #Marmolada glacier in #Alps in Northern #Italy. Impressive images, on the path that leads to the top of the Punta Rocca. It was 10°C higher ...

Courmayeur, below the 'sunny side' of Mont Blanc, is an appealing base for mountain hikes, long lunches and Alpine adventure ...

The Bernina Express is one of the world's most celebrated scenic trains, travelling 89 miles through the two beautiful ...

ROME (AP) - 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 ...