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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

The brief – to design an innovative and practical shelter, or bivouac (as mountain climbing shelters are often known as), for the extreme Alpine climate – was conceived by a design studio at Harvard ...