Researchers from ETH Zurich are studying how alpine vegetation is responding to a warming climate—and how some plant communities are continuing to stand firm against newcomers from lower elevations.

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 ...

Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and ... and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low ...

The Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) discusses the country's significant climate risks including frequent floods, wildfires, and severe air pollution, and ...

The source of the Upper Green River, for example, is an Alpine lake in the Wind River range. In the early 2000s, the Wind River range snowpack was already melting about two weeks earlier than ...