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Traditionally, Ethiopia is referred the water tower of Africa. The abundant water resources are manifested by rivers, underground water, ponds and lakes. The availability of seasonal rainfall in Kiremt and Belg seasons makes the water volume to increase. In...
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...
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...
Plans for skyscraper wind turbines on Denbigh Moors will leave the mountains of Snowdonia “fenced in” and “backclothed” by the towers, it is claimed.
Planners are backing moves to build the 16-turbine Brenig wind farm, near Llyn Brenig, in North Wales, despite concerns from the ...
From 4-8 October 2015, researchers gathered to discuss and learn about the “Mountains of Our Future Earth.” This conference was held at the Centre 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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Village elder Yang Zhenjun isn't ready to move out from the valley where his people have herded sheep and tended crops for generations amid arid, drought-prone mountains of China's northwest. Still, he acknowledges that life as he has known it is all but over.
The community's...
Trudging along the bank of a shallow creek in the Peruvian Amazon, Catherine Rigsby sinks knee-deep in mud. She calmly shimmies out of the muck, then grabs a branch lying on the bank for a walking stick. As stingless bees buzz around her head and macaws screech in the trees above, the...
North America's tallest mountain peak just got a new name. Or, more accurately, the mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley just got its old name back.
On August 30, during a trip to Alaska, President Obama said the name of the state's 20,237-foot (6,168 meters) mountain...
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