Mountain festival starts in Portugal

Mountain festival starts in Portugal

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MiratecArts kicked-off on the morning of 1 January 2016 the second edition of Montanha Pico Festival in the island mountain of Pico, Azores-Portugal, with the opening of the exhibition "The Agonizing Glacier" by Laurence Piaget (supported by SMArt Sustainable Mountain Art).

On Monday 4 January, the exhibition...

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Montanha Pico Festival

Montanha Pico Festival

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MiratecArts invites filmmakers to submit films about mountain culture depicting nature, adventure, expeditions and stories set in mountain scenery for the second edition of the annual Montanha Pico Festival to be held in January 2016. 

Films in digital format can be shorts, medium or long features. Films...

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Mountain Research and Development online

Mountain Research and Development online

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This Open Issue offers transformation, systems, and target knowledge in its 3 peer-reviewed sections. In the first paper, a participatory process through which the national objectives of food security and environmental conservation can be achieved in North Korea is validated. Next, modeling-based papers analyze the relationship between permafrost and land...

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New atlas maps climate change in Himalayas

New atlas maps climate change in Himalayas

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The “Himalayan Climate and Water Atlas: Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Five of Asia’s Major River Basins” was released on 11 December 2015 by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)  , GRID-Arendal and the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO).

The first of its kind,...

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Mountain museums form new alliance

Mountain museums form new alliance

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The directors of six mountain museums met at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, on 11 December for the signing ceremony of the Mountain Museums Alliance (MMA). This free association among alpine and mountain museums aims to define a network of...

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alpMonitor: tracking changes

alpMonitor: tracking changes

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Sustainable development is not simply limited to nature protection. As a guiding idea that touches virtually all areas of life, sustainability should be discussed at every lunch, every workshop, schoolroom or parliament. Through the project alpMonitor, International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA), together with the...

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