Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, ...

Less snow does not mean fewer avalanches. This is the result of a study published in Snow/Seasonal Snow by SLF researcher Stephanie Mayer. She has investigated the consequences of climate change on ...

African mountain ranges, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Ruwenzori Mountains, are facing accelerating climate impacts marked by melting glaciers, forest loss, and prolonged droughts.

Crystal Mountain is one of three ski areas to be nationally recognized by SKI magazine as a 2018 Golden Eagle Award winner. The Golden Eagle Awards, overseen by a partnership between SKI and the ...

Farmers in the Kigezi Highlands of Uganda use small tea plantations and wood lots used to diversify their livelihoods in the face of climate change. Farmers living in Africa’s mountain regions report ...

A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder adds to growing concerns that one of the Rocky Mountains’ most iconic species — the American pika — may be disappearing as a result of climate change.

And climate models of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains predict that, at 3 degrees warming, more than half the range’s precipitation will fall as rain, not snow (2). That would be disastrous for ...

Editor’s Note: This article has updated to clarify that while most American pikas live in the cryosphere, there are populations known to live outside the cryosphere. A new study by the University of ...