climate change
Glaciers, permafrost on the decline, may disappear.
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates an ongoing loss of ice on Niwot Ridge and the adjacent Green Lakes Valley in the high mountains west of Boulder is likely to...
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is deeply dependent on agriculture, with 66% of the population engaged in the agriculture sector. Although greater market access and better infrastructure have increased the access of mountain farmers to food through ...
During the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, Nepal’s then environment minister Ganesh Shah had a reason to be frustrated. Not because the global meet was not moving ahead but that it did not address the issues of mountain countries. “They are talking about oceans, islands, deserts...
The Andean Forests Program together with the ASEAN Social Forestry Network, African Forest Forum and the Global Program on Climate Change of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation organized a joint session...
The case could set a precedent for holding companies accountable for climate damage
A Peruvian farmer and mountain guide will be the subject of much debate in Paris this week.
In a legal challenge well timed to coincide with the Paris climate talks, the guide...
Mountain ranges actively evolve with and respond to the Earth's climate rather than being static, unyielding parts of the landscape, a new study has found.
Erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate...
Landscapes are a keystone in the study and synthesis of social and environmental processes. They are part of a wide range of approaches that explicitly integrate spatial heterogeneity, path dependency and fluxes and feedbacks between people and the resources and ecosystems they use....
“Everything is coming together as everything is coming apart.” So said Jamie Henn, strategy and communications director at 350.org, after he and the other organizers of the People’s Climate March put hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of New York City in September 2014 for...
On a bright and unseasonably warm March day, Auden Schendler, Aspen Skiing Company’s vice president of sustainability, and I trudge up the boot path to Highland Peak. Once we reach the 12,392-foot summit, we click into our bindings and ski down Highland Bowl, a 40-plus-degree pitch...
El cambio climático impacta a las regiones de montaña más que muchas otras partes del globo. Las bases de vida de las poblaciones de montaña peligran por temperaturas más altas, eventos extremos, cambios en las precipitaciones y el retroceso de los glaciares.
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