Overview

• Legambiente's Carovana dei Ghiacciai 2025 tracked eight key glaciers in Italy and abroad, finding persistent frontal retreat and thinning.
• Field teams documented growing debris cover, proglacial lakes and dead‑ice zones, particularly at Solda, reshaping the alpine landscape.
• Researchers attribute the continued losses to hotter summers with reduced winter precipitation, preventing mass balance recovery.
• Mountain permafrost temperatures are rising—often by more than 1 °C in a decade—heightening concerns about slope instability across the Alps.
• Scientists and NGOs call for stronger mitigation and adaptation policies, expanded European alpine monitoring and updated models for water resources and mountain safety, while snowmaking infrastructure is appearing at higher elevations.