The Transylvanian Alps provide visitors with abundant wildlife, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and quaint villages—without the ...

The Alpine Ecosystem: A Model of Conservation The Swiss Alps are a biodiversity hotspot, with about 4,500 plant species.

It is early fall in Switzerland’s Fribourg canton, the heart of the Gruyère appellation d'origine protégée, or AOP, and ...

and WWF Switzerland) are working together under the coordination of the European Alpine Programme (EALP) to implement a comprehensive and transboundary conservation strategy in the Alps. The EALP and ...

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable.

However, a studyExternal link published on August 24 by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Biodiversity Forum of the Swiss Academy of Sciences says ...

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, ...