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In Italy, the Alps and glaciers are becoming more fragile, weak, and unstable. In 2025 the alarm comes from landslides, rockfalls, and debris flows at high altitude, but also from the increase in extreme weather events increasingly affecting Alpine regions—fueled by the climate crisis, which is causing the melting of Alpine glaciers and heavy rainfall even at high altitude. The Legambiente report's numbers speak for themselves: from the beginning of January to present, 40 landslides have been observed at high altitude in the Alpine area in 2025, with the most of them occurring during the summer season, peaking from June (10) to August (18). Since the beginning of the year, the number of rockfalls has nearly equaled that of debris flows (18 and 20 confirmed instances, respectively). The most impacted regions are Veneto (17 landslide incidents) and Valle D'Aosta (12). The 2025 data are supplemented by long-term records: from 2018 to 2025, a total of 671 significant landslides have been documented across the seven Alpine regions (Liguria, Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta, Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino-Alto-Adige, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia). To date, more than 239,000 landslides have been documented and mapped within the Alpine regions, impacting over 276,000 individuals. Another warning pertains to increasing temperatures, which both expedite glacier disintegration and result in reduced snowfall. In the last 60 years, the Italian Alps have lost more than 170 square kilometers of glacier land.
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