{"id":9873,"date":"2019-09-25T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:56:09","slug":"mont-blanc-glacier-in-danger-of-collapse-town-of-courmayeur-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9873","title":{"rendered":"Mont Blanc: Glacier in Danger of Collapse, Town of Courmayeur Evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming is blamed as a huge section of Mont Blanc glacier on the Italian side looks set to break away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Italian authorities have closed roads and evacuated mountain huts after experts warned that part of a glacier on Mont Blanc could collapse.<\/p>\n<p>About 250,000 cubic metres of ice are in danger of breaking away from the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses peak, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of the nearby town of Courmayeur said global warming was changing the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Courmayeur Mayor Stefano Miserocchi signed an order closing roads in the Val Ferret on the Italian side of Mont Blanc, after experts warned that a section of the glacier was sliding at speeds of 50-60cm (16-23in) per day.<\/p>\n<p>The Mont Blanc massif is Western Europe&#8217;s highest mountain range.\u00a0 \u00a0It has 11 peaks above 4,000m in France and Italy and attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming is blamed as a huge section of Mont Blanc glacier on the Italian side looks set to break away. Italian authorities have closed roads and evacuated mountain huts after experts warned that part of a glacier on Mont Blanc could collapse. About 250,000 cubic metres of ice are in danger of breaking away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,1366,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-europe","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}