Europe
Nearly all of Austria's 900 glaciers retreated last year amid record-setting heat, according to Austrian scientists. The rapid melting mirrors a trend across the Alps and underscores scientists' warnings of...
“Mountains for Europe‘s Future” is an initiative leading to a Strategic Research Agenda to promote the inclusion of specific mountain topics in the Horizon 2020 Work Programmes 2018-20 or other strategic documents.
Join the event to:
- “Find the mountains...
“Most important problem mountainous regions face is indisputably depopulation,” said Iliyana Yotova, MEP with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), speaking at a ...
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 ...
Mount Elbrus isn’t technically a mountain — it is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, near the Georgian border in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, Russia.
With an elevation of 18,510 feet (5,642 meters), it is part of the Caucasus...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of Open Foris, a suite of open source software tools to monitor forest inventory. Piloted in ten countries, the tools allow for data entry on smart phones or tablets.
Overall, the objective of the tools...
