Landscape experts met in the European AlpsnewsAround 200 participants from the Americas, Asia and Europe met at the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) 2016 conference in Innsbruck and Seefeld, Austria to discuss the past, present and future of rural mountain landscapes. Hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research...
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Clean climbing in the AlpsnewsMountain Wilderness, a member of the Mountain Partnership, tries to promote an approach to climbing that is more respectful of the environment. With this in mind, Mountain Wilderness Switzerland organized a "clean climbing" session without fixed security devices on 15-18 September place at the Zwinglipasshütte in Saint-Gallen, Switzerland....
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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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