Lives on the edge: glacier biodiversity

In the common imagination, a glacier is considered an extreme, inhospitable environment. Actually, glaciers are an ecosystem populated by diverse organisms, adapted to live on the ice and on which they depend. The rapid disappearance of glaciers is putting this unique biodiversity at serious risk of extinction.

Roberto Ambrosini and Marco Caccianiga, from the University of Milan, will meet Mauro Gobbi, a researcher at the MUSE. The focus of the dialogue is glacier biodiversity and the challenges for the conservation of these unique and vital environments, with reference to the studies carried out on the Forni Glacier and the Progetto Cold Case | Cold Case Project.