Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.

More information: Mylène Jacquemart et al, Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational ...

Compared to other terrestrial ecosystems, mountain ecosystems are particularly sensitive to the effects of anthropogenic climate change ... landscapes and cultures of Europe’s high alpine and ...

“I have no idea what I'm going to find,” said Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR ... Both are caused by a warming global climate. But exactly how these two ...

These trees were once part of a thriving forest, but then the cooling climate entombed them under thick layers of mountain ice.

It's also important to use the discoveries made possible by the thaw to learn more about alpine climate systems, and how they respond to rapid, as well as long-term changes in climate.

"The vicuñas are probably helping some alpine organisms, but we can't assume they'll all be okay, because in Earth's history, we've never seen climate change happen at this speed," Bueno de ...

With deep roots in polar regions, alpine environments, and Quaternary history, today we embrace a global perspective on bellwethers of environmental change. Thanks to the efforts of Sarah's family and ...