January 2015

Pascal Payot: A true nature man has passed away.

He was not just talking about mountain nature, he was living it. I have met him in a number of situations where …

Jean Afanassieff, a special mountaineering figure is gone

Jean Afanassieff, a French of Russian origin, has died on January 10 at the age of 61 in Paris. He began to …

The coming death of tourism (Hooray!)

Translation of the last article Published January 7, 2015 by Fabrice Nicolino, wounded on January 7. This satirical paper was initially …

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5 days ago

The plans of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de #Catalunya #FGC, #Catalonia’s public railway company, for Vallter 2000 ski resort in our new blog post. Vallter faces the most challenging period in its history due to unsustainability both in economical and environmental terms and is planning to build a mega cable car with a capacity of 16,000 people/day, situated close to the cross-border ridge that connects the Parc Natural de les Capçaleres del Ter i del Freser to the highly sensitive Py, Mantet, and Eyne Nature Reserves.By Antoine Glory 🙏Mountain Wilderness FranceMountain Wilderness CatalunyaMountain Wilderness PakistanMountain Wilderness SchweizMountain Wilderness EspañaMountain Wilderness ItaliaMountain Wilderness DeutschlandMountain Wilderness DRCongo ... See MoreSee Less

The Vallter 2000 cable car project in Catalonia’s Eastern Pyrenees - Mountain Wilderness

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By Antoine Glory Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya or FGC, Catalonia’s public railway company, is spearheading the planning of a new infrastructure, which could transport up to two thousan...

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From 23 percent less in the northern Alps to a decrease of almost 50 percent on the southwestern slopes: between 1920 and 2020, snowfall across the entirety of the Alps has decreased on average by a significant 34 percent. ... See MoreSee Less

In a hundred years, snowfall in the Alps has decreased by more than a third

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Today, the Standing Committee of the Berne Convention decided to lower the protection status of #wolves. This decision, influenced by the EU's efforts to weaken wolf protections, is considered a serious error as it lacks any solid scientific foundation and #wolf populations have barely recovered after going extinct in most parts of Europe. ... See MoreSee Less

Nature under attack: Bern Convention weakens wolf protection

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oday, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted to lower the protection status of wolves, a decision widely criticised by conservation experts and environmental organisations. This decision,...

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6 days ago

"Approximately 89% of the population is Greenlandic Inuit and, while surveys indicate strong support for increasing the size of the tourism sector, concerns have been voiced in this community, particularly about the spoiling of the land’s pristine beauty and the potential for foreign companies to leach the profits."#Greenland ... See MoreSee Less

Greenland split over benefits of tourism as territory opens to the world

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Direct flights from the US to Nuuk expected to double next year but there are concerns about the expected influx

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2 weeks ago

"Permafrost thaws across the globe are destroying housing and infrastructure, and disrupting ecosystems. These slumps are also harbingers of a cascading environmental catastrophe: there is twice as much carbon locked up in permafrost as in the atmosphere." ... See MoreSee Less

‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle

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On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as melting permafrost ice leaves little behind

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7 Dec

The Gliederferner glacier joins the ranks of South Tyrolean glaciers facing a bleak future. Scientific data confirms this trend: South Tyrol’s glaciers shrank by 19.7% 1983-1997 due to global warming, and by a further 11.9% btw 1997-2006 #shrinkingglaciers
https://www.mountainwilderness.org/2024/12/03/november-december-gliederferner-glacier/

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4 Dec

EU Negotiators Delay Deforestation Ban, Discard Proposed Changes

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4 Dec

The plans of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de #Catalunya #FGC, #Catalonia’s public railway company, for Vallter 2000 ski resort. Vallter faces the most challenging period in its history due to unsustainability both in economical and environmental terms

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Eurac Research @eurac ·

4 Dec

New study: In 100 years, #snowfall in the #Alps has decreased by more than a third between 1920 and 2020. On southwestern slopes, the decrease amounts even to 50%.

Here's the full magazine article:

@EuracAlpine @GiacomoBertold1 #snow #environment

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EEB @green_europe ·

3 Dec

This morning the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention decided to weaken wolf protection.
"This decision undermines European environmental governance and diminishes the credibility of EU environmental policy as one grounded in scientific evidence."
https://eeb.org/nature-under-attack-bern-convention-weakens-wolf-protection/