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 ...

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 ...

Mount Kilimanjaro, standing at 5,895 meters, offers climbers a unique journey through five distinct climate zones, ranging ...

“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 ...

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 ...