The two alpine regions projected to suffer the greatest loss of snow cover in the world are in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Skiing is central to the economy of many mountain regions across Europe. How are they coping with climate change and what room for adaptation do they have?
Many mountain lakes in the Pyrenees have turned green, a phenomenon that is a warning about the multiple pressures on ecosystems.
Meltwater rivers in the European Alps will change as glaciers melt – threatening animals that are vital for alpine ecosystems with habitat loss.
For the Italian president, the region is where his nation’s constitution was born.
The Alps are warming at twice the global rate.
Often thought of as eternal, mountains are vulnerable to climate change and tourism. To protect them, they should be recognised for their cultural values, not just their natural characteristics.
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
Rocks deposited by vanishing glaciers in the Southern Alps thousands of years ago hold climate clues about the past, painting a bleak picture about the long-term survival of alpine ice in New Zealand.
Glaciers in North America, Europe and the Andes, in particular, have significantly less ice than people realized.
New research found colour played a major role skewing researcher bias — pretty, vibrant flowers get more scientific attention than dull plants, regardless of their ecological significance.
Glaciers support a unique community of plants, many of which are found nowhere else.
For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify how much climate change contributed to glacial melt, using more than 40 years of data from New Zealand’s retreating glaciers.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
Global heating could reduce mountain glacier snow and ice by up to 80% by 2100, threatening major drinking water supplies.
A heritage landscape researcher used the work of a Victorian aerial photographer to map a century of glacial loss in the Alps – and the results are staggering.
Bear-man conflicts have made news in the Alps but history tells a story of a possible cohabitation.
When the road heads higher and the mercury is rising, the world’s top cyclists get to test the quality of their preparation.
Decent snowfall arrived later than ever this season.
The mountainous terrain of the crash site of Germanwings flight 4U9525 will be a challenge for recovering the 150 people killed in the accident.
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Senior Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Professor, University of Arizona
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Academic, University of Leeds
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Professor, University of Maine
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Senior Lecturer of Life Sciences, University of Essex
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Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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Professor of Aquatic Science, University of Leeds
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Geologist and geomorphologist, GNS Science
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Plant Ecology, Durham University
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Associate professor, University of Maine
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
