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Mountain hike for climate protection
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Aug 27, 2009
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
alpinism,
sport,
glaciers,
geomorphology
On 15 August 2009, some seventy hikers went up to the Goldbergkees glacier on the Hoher Sonnblick in Salzburg/A to draw attention to the impacts of global climate change.
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Mountains in the Mediterranean Region Project presented at the IUCN Congress
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zopemaster
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Dec 02, 2004
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Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM
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mountains,
geomorphology,
players / networks,
landscape conservation/support,
landscape
Italy's Environment Minister presented the Mountains in the Mediterranean Region Project at the IUCN Congress held in Bangkok from 17 to 25 November.
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New hypothesis on deep erosion in high mountain regions
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zopemaster
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Nov 06, 2008
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Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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erosion,
soil immissions and hazards,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
climate change, climate policy
Researchers in the south-east of the Tibetan plateau have found that the moraine dams created during glacier fluctuations have over the millennia helped to slow down the erosion effect of large rivers known as downcutting.
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New publication: Mountain Biodiversity and Climate Change
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zopemaster
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Aug 27, 2009
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Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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biodiversity,
mountains,
geomorphology,
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy
On the basis of papers presented at the International Mountain Biodiversity Conference held in Kathmandu/NP in November 2008, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has published a brochure on biodiversity in mountain landscapes and climate change.
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Oh...!
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zopemaster
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Aug 23, 2013
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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alpinism,
sport,
glaciers,
geomorphology
… The Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) is this year celebrating its 150th anniversary and has got Mother Nature to build it a table of snow and ice at an altitude of 2,700 metres.
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Revue de géographie alpine - Journal of Alpine Research
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Jul 07, 2021 01:12 AM
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geography,
mountains,
geomorphology,
research, science
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Rhône Glacier to melt away by 2100
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Nov 06, 2008
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Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
research, science
Scientists at the Écoles Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne/CH and Zurich/CH have used complex computer simulations to predict that the Rhône Glacier in the Canton of Valais/CH will have disappeared by 2100.
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Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads
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Jul 07, 2021 01:10 AM
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geological events and phenomena,
geology,
glaciers,
geomorphology
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Solving the paradox of the end of the Little Ice Age in the Alps
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climate change, climate policy,
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Still little research into permafrost
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zopemaster
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Aug 12, 2004
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Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM
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permafrost,
geomorphology,
research, science
During a six-year experimental series Reynold Delaloye, geographer at Fribourg University/CH, has found that permafrost reacts less sensitively to warming than was previously assumed, with no change noted in soil temperature at greater depths. He attributes his findings to a cooling ventilation mechanism that sets in in winter.
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