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 ...

Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, ...

African mountain ranges, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Ruwenzori Mountains, are facing accelerating climate impacts marked by melting glaciers, forest loss, and prolonged droughts.

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 ...

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 ...

Temperature, rainfall, and snowfall patterns are shifting at an accelerated rate in mountain regions Over one billion people worldwide depend on mountain snow and glaciers for water, including the ...