Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...
Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, ...
Crystal Mountain is one of three ski areas to be nationally recognized by SKI magazine as a 2018 Golden Eagle Award winner. The Golden Eagle Awards, overseen by a partnership between SKI and the ...
African mountain ranges, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Ruwenzori Mountains, are facing accelerating climate impacts marked by melting glaciers, forest loss, and prolonged droughts.
A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder adds to growing concerns that one of the Rocky Mountains’ most iconic species — the American pika — may be disappearing as a result of climate change.
Farmers in the Kigezi Highlands of Uganda use small tea plantations and wood lots used to diversify their livelihoods in the face of climate change. Farmers living in Africa’s mountain regions report ...
Bird species are shifting to higher elevations over time, likely in response to climate change. The red line represents the mean elevation of birds, which has moved uphill after 20 years. Many bird ...
And climate models of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains predict that, at 3 degrees warming, more than half the range’s precipitation will fall as rain, not snow (2). That would be disastrous for ...
In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH ...