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The countdown to the Marmolada glacier, which began a long time ago, has accelerated in recent times and the glaciologists at the University of Padua, delivered by hand, risk a sentence: it cannot be more than 15 years old. Ten years ago it lost 5 hectares of surface per year, in the last 3 it has gone to 9 hectares per year. The cause is not only high temperatures, says prof. Mauro Varotto: withdraws because the volume has thinned, it is no longer a living ‘system’, it begins to erode the surface and when the thickness is less than 1-2 meters, the fusion increases. “In the last 70 years – says Aldino Bondesan, coordinator of the Triveneto glaciological campaigns – it has lost more than 80% of its volume, from 95 million cubic meters in 1954 to 14 million today. Forecasts of its extinction are always approaching. plus. It cannot be more than 15 years old. “
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