India, Jan. 31 -- Climate experts have expressed serious concern about the future of winter games even as less than a week remains for the next Winter Olympics which start on February 6, 2026.

The games are to be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the heart of the Italian Alps. However, a recent study has noted that even the high-altitude Alps do not seem to have enough snow at the peak of winter to hold Winter Olympics due to the impact of climate change.

Experts have also highlighted how the temperature of Cortina has warmed up by 3.6 degree Celsius (degC) in the last 70 years from 1956, when it last hosted the winter Olympics.

An analysis from Climate Central, a global organisation of scientists working on climate change, warned that the...