{"id":43539,"date":"2020-08-09T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/italy-resort-lifts-alert-on-melting-glacier-threat\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:42:00","slug":"italy-resort-lifts-alert-on-melting-glacier-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/italy-resort-lifts-alert-on-melting-glacier-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"#Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2020\/inseptembera.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"In September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance measures were put in place\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2020\/inseptembera.jpg\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance \" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2020\/inseptembera.jpg\" title=\"In September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance measures were put in place\" width=\"800\"><\/img><figcaption>\n                In September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance measures were put in place<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An Italian Alpine resort on Sunday lifted a state of alert declared last week over fears that a chunk of glacier on the Mont Blanc mountain range might crash down on them.<\/p>\n<section>\n      <\/section>\n<p>Around 15 people who were evacuated can now return to their homes in Courmayeur and traffic in the Cap Ferret valley is permitted again, said a statement from town officials.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change has been increasingly melting the world&#8217;s glaciers, creating a new danger for the town of Courmayeur, a resort community in Italy&#8217;s Aosta Valley region, near the French border.<br \/>\nThe town was put on high alert on Wednesday as a block of ice estimated at about 500,000 cubic metres\u2014the size of the Milan cathedral, one official said\u2014from the Planpincieux glacier risked falling and threatening homes.<br \/>\nBut on Sunday, town officials announced that all security measures had been lifted.<br \/>\nSome locals were dismissive of the closure, and said it further hit a tourism season already affected by the coronavirus measures.<br \/>\nBut the mayor&#8217;s office said again on Sunday: &#8220;The evacuation was necessary and inevitable because of the glacier risk.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhile regretting what it said was the alarmist tone of some <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> coverage, officials insisted that the threat to the town had been real.<br \/>\nDuring a recent helicopter flypast, an AFP reporter saw a gaping chasm on the lower part of the Planpincieux, from which two cascades of water flowed towards the valley, as it hung from the mountainside like a gigantic block of grey polystyrene.<br \/>\nIn September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance measures were put in place.<br \/>\nA study last year by Swiss scientists found that Alpine glaciers could shrink between 65 and 90 percent this century, depending on how effectively the world can curb greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>\n                                                \u00a9 2020 AFP<\/p>\n<div>\n                                            <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat (2020, August  9)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved  9 August 2020<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-08-italy-resort-glacier-threat.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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