Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Qiloane Mountain. The rock, which is considered to be the model for the Basotho hat due to its shape, is the most important ...

In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from international ...

Mountainous and high-altitude regions are considered to be among the most fragile ecosystems on Earth. From melting glaciers to land erosion, these environments face mounting threats from climate ...

New research underscores the negative effect of climate change on alpine bee populations. According to 60 years’ worth of data, bees in alpine regions are in an evolutionary rut, unable to adapt to ...

One of the most widespread types of forest in Australia’s high country is facing an existential threat. We need bold action ...

An extraordinary ice core extracted from Mont Blanc has unveiled a continuous climate and atmospheric record dating back over 12,000 years, offering the oldest alpine ice ever studied in Western ...

Glaciers held the narratives of a time before us as they accumulated. However, the transition in climate destroyed this evidence. A new study employed the study of an Alpine ice core to record the ...