How climate change is affecting life in the Italian Alps.

Photographer James Whitlow Delano has focused on environmental issues for much of his career. This interest was sparked early on in his life, he says: “I’ve always been strongly affected by the environment … since I was a young child living beside a nuclear research lab in California.”

From left, Fondazione Montagna Sicura (FMS) glaciologists
Paolo Perret, Simone Gottardelli and supervisor Fabrizio
Troilo measure movement in the moraine of the
receding and thinning lower reaches of the Brenva Glacier
with a satnav (satellite navigation) device, accurate to a
tenth of a millimeter, which they call the "bomba" (bomb). 

Delano has worked around the world but now lives in Japan, where he works on, among other subjects, climate change. The work is so important to him that in 2015, he founded the Everyday Climate Change Instagram feed that presents the work of photographers documenting climate change around the world.

In some of his most recent work, Delano traveled to the Valle d’Aosta mountains and valleys of the Italian Alps to see the impact of climate change there. What he found was an area — a cultural crossroads since before the time of the Romans — that has been losing its glaciers at an alarming rate over the past three decades.

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