In this 360-degree video, you get the chance to join glacier researchers as they do their annual measurements on the Ventina glacier. “This is an unprecedented retreat,” Mattia Gussoni tells Euronews' Elena Roda as he glances up from his measurements at the Ventina glacier in the Italian Alps. Gussoni is a researcher at the Glaciological Service of Lombardy.

With global warming, glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate. Discover in this 360° video how the Ventina glacier in the Italian Alps has receded by roughly one kilometre in less than a century, reducing rivers’ volumes across the Lombardy region. In Valmalenco in the Italian Alps, the Ventina glacier is receding about 30 metres each year due to climate change and human activities.

MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- (Editor's Note: Elena Roda is a graduate student studying journalism, media and globalization at the Danish School of Journalism, the University of Aarhus and the University of Hamburg. She was the winner of a UPIU contest to finance a special reporting project.)

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