Drying causes Mount Kenya glacier to meltnewsA 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 temperatures. In the tropical climate of East Africa, glaciers are an unexpected, yet vitally important part of the ecosystem. Since...
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Mountains 2016 international film competitionnewsThe 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 of Mountain Areas (Euromontana) present the Mountains 2016 International Film Competition. This competition is a Mountains 2016 event and is part...
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Climate change in mountain valleys in PakistannewsSardari, 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 interview on 24 August 2016 about the impacts of climate change in the valley, Abdul Rehman, a teacher at Government...
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Tri-national youth tour of Mont Blanc beginsnewsProMONT-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 Tour du Mount Blanc and will travel from Courmayeur, Italy to Chamonix Valley, France. Accompanying them are experts in agriculture,...
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Community-based mountain tourism in PakistannewsThe 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 MASO’s office hall in Gulmit Gojal. Educated youth, especially girls, from various villages in the Gojal Hunza Valley attended. Didar...
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The value of carbon stored in mountainsnewsAdrian 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 shrublands is between USD 1.24 billion and 11.8 billion per annum, in climate regulation terms. His thesis, “The extent and...
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