Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.

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 ...

These trees were once part of a thriving forest, but then the cooling climate entombed them under thick layers of mountain ...

More information: Mylène Jacquemart et al, Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational ...

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“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 ...

In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 14 years after the Center for ...

In 2018, they and others were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study additional alpine ice patches in the area to reconstruct the ecosystem's long-term climate history and ...