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Mountain Research Initiative launches new Newsletter

The first issue of MRI NEWS has just been published. The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) newsletter will be sent out by e-mail in English twice a year and is entirely given over to research on Global Change in mountain areas.

The Andes and the Alps on a single rope team

This year mountain guides from Peru are carrying out part of their training in the Alps at the invitation of their Swiss counterparts. Already back in the early 1980s, the Swiss Mountain Guide Association initiated a professional mountain guide training course in Peru.

Cashmere goats for the Aosta Valley

Italy's Aosta Valley is to introduce cashmere goats in a bid to start a breeding project. The regional office for agriculture states that the goats can be kept outdoors all year round and are happy to graze even on difficult terrain.

European Population Conference

European Population Conference

Environmental Performance Reviews: Slovenia

Protected areas of European mountains

Natura 2000

Possible causes of forest decline and research programmes in Europe

Continuous Monitoring of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Alpine Region: The Alpine Delphi

The SuperAlp!

ALPARC - 2nd International Training Session & Workshop

Cities and Regions

A Price Worth Paying

The federal government’s regional policy

Cultural Routes of Switzerland 2007/1

Cultural Routes of Switzerland 2007/1

The pan-European environment: glimpses into an uncertain future

Continuous Monitoring of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Alpine Region: The Alpine Delphi

The Water Balance of the Alps

European forests

The multi-annual work programme of the alpine conference

Weaving a Web of Environmental Law

EU measures on climate change

When the time comes for the new European Commission to take office in 2009, it is possible that the EU will appoint a Commissioner for Climate Change, according to the environmental news service ENDS Europe Daily.

2008 King Albert Mountain Award

The King Albert I Memorial Foundation held its annual award ceremony in Pontresina/CH on 6 September.

New publication on developments in environmental law

This book is the first to tell the full story in chronological order of the Environmental Law Programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN ELP).

The World in 2050: Can rapid global growth be reconciled with moving to a low carbon economy?

Glittering mountain hut in the Monte Rosa massif

Construction work began last week on the new Monte Rosa Hut at the foot of the Dufourspitze above Zermatt/CH. The hut, which resembles a glittering rock crystal, is being built by the Swiss Alpine Club in the framework of the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Water resources under threat in the Himalayas

Climate change is threatening the water reserves of East Asia. An estimated 50 percent of the water from the Himalayas comes from glaciers, permafrost zones and the snowmelt.

Terra Glacialis