Going, going... gone? Europe's fast-vanishing glaciers

Gran Sasso D'Italia, Italy (AFP) Aug 14, 2021

The Calderone ice formation in central Italy once laid claim to being the southernmost glacier in Europe - before it shrank and split into much-diminished glacierets. As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, the glacier risks melting away into the geological record books altogether. Situated in a deep valley in the Gran Sasso d'Italia, a massif in the Apennine Mountains