Dismantling ski lifts and moving villages: Alps adapt to climate change

Dismantling ski lifts and moving villages: Alps adapt to climate change
Innsbruck, Austria (AFP) Nov 28, 2014 - With temperatures rising faster in the Alps than the rest of the world, alpine countries are working together to adapt to climate change and hope to set an example. A recent Austrian climate change report found that the country's temperatures had risen twice as fast as the global average since 1880, with the number of sunshine hours in the Alps increasing by 20 percent. While this may p ... more

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