Uttarakhand disaster, HKH
Consensus is pointing more and more towards a landslide, a combination of rock and glacier ice, as the primary cause of the …
Mountain Wilderness at the “Rally for the Climate” of the Social Climate Summit in Madrid on 6 December
We were there! On 6 December, Mountain Wilderness de Ayllón, Guadarrama y Gredos (Spain) took to the streets to protect both our …
The COP25 and the March for the Climate
The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 is taking place in Madrid 2 – 13 December 2019. The conference is designed to …
The fifth Sustainable Mountain Development Summit has taken place in Leh
The fifth Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) took place in Leh (Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India) from September 20 to September 22. …
César A. Portocarrero Rodríguez gets the Edmund Hillary Medal
On May 29, 2016, the Peruvian engineer César Augusto Portocarrero Rodríguez has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Sir Edmund …
Signature of the Paris Agreement on climate change: what consequences for the mountains?
On 22 April 2016 (Earth Day), 177 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed the Paris Agreement …
A new American study on the impact of climate change on the retention of metals in the forests
A recent study, undertaken by the Dartmouth College in the mountains of New England, has been published by the journal Plant and …