News

Mountain Partnership project highlighted at The World Farmers Markets Coalition Second General Assembly

19.07.2024

On 12 July 2024, industry leaders, agriculture experts and farmers gathered from around the world for an event focused on leveraging partnerships to enhance local food systems. The event featured a series of roundtable discussions aimed at identifying and forging new alliances.

The first roundtable discussion explored the challenges and opportunities...

Drying causes Mount Kenya glacier to melt

15.09.2016

A study published in Cryosphere earlier this year has found that the largest glacier on Mount Kenya, the Lewis Glacier, is melting because of decreasing atmospheric moisture rather than increasing...

Mountains 2016 international film competition

14.09.2016

The Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), the School of Agriculture (ESA) of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), the Portuguese Society of Ecology (SPECO) and the European Association...

Climate change in mountain valleys in Pakistan

13.09.2016

Sardari, Helmat and Taobat are the last three villages in the upper Neelum Valley in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan known for their pristine, moist temperate forests and alpine pastures. In an...

Tri-national youth tour of Mont Blanc begins

12.09.2016

ProMONT-BLANC is conducting a tri-national tour of Mont Blanc with 12 young “ambassadors”, ages 20-25, from France, Italy and Switzerland. They set out on 12 September along the trail...

Community-based mountain tourism in Pakistan

09.09.2016

The Mountain Area Support Organization (MASO) organized a session for the youth of Gojal, Pakistan on the topic “Role of community-based tourism in socio-economic development”. The session was held at...

The value of carbon stored in mountains

08.09.2016

Adrian Ward, focal point of the University of Queensland’s CarbonLab is sharing his recently completed doctoral thesis revealing the economic value of carbon dioxide sequestered by mountain grasslands and...