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Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds

The impact of global heating on the Alps is visible from space, with the snow-white mountains increasingly colonised by green plants, according to a study of high-resolution satellite data.

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The new ruins of the melting Alps
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The new ruins of the melting Alps

Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers.
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