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 ...

Researchers examined 177 bird species in four large mountain ranges: the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Scandinavian Mountains, and ...

A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are adapting, and the barriers they face -- findings relevant to people living in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many bird species have moved towards colder areas in the mountains of Europe as the climate has warmed over the past two ...

With the Earth warming at a record rate, the list of locales that could reliably host a Winter Games will shrink ...

Ecologists in South Africa's Golden Gate Highlands National Park studied how weather affects dawn singing by three African warbler species. Findings reveal that these birds start singing earlier on ...

The World Meteorological Organization’s fifth annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin, issued in September, called attention to the effects of air pollution on climate change and human and ecosystem ...

Bird species are shifting to higher elevations over time, likely in response to climate change. The red line represents the mean elevation of birds, which has moved uphill after 20 years. Many bird ...