Environment

The study says that only 10 of 19 former Games locations will be able to stage reliable winter sports events by 2050 and just 6 by 2080.

Two new reports make grim reading for those involved in winter tourism. The future looks bleak, but there is some hope.

Emmanuel Macron has been to Chamonix to see for himself the damage caused to the country’s largest glacier by global warming and announce measures to protect the mountain from over-tourism.

The recently retired German alpine racer Felix Neureuther believes skiers should no longer train on glaciers in the summer. Is it time to ban summer skiing?

That’s the claim from the Swiss government at a recent United Nations conference. It is a similar picture across the Alps.

The slope is on the roof of a waste incineration plant in Copenhagen. PlanetSKI reports.

A new website and campaign is launched to persuade people to shun flying and use other ways to travel to the mountains.

Many Tour Operators have new environmental initiatives and we’ll be doing our bit too. PlanetSKI reports.

Part of a glacier on Mt Blanc could collapse. Roads are closed & huts evacuated as 250,000 cubic metres could fall.

Hundreds of people have attended a high altitude funeral for Switzerland’s Pizol glacier. It is no more.

The snowboard manufacturer Burton is closing all its stores and offices worldwide to support the Global Climate Strike.

Bad weather caused him to leave it in a refuge but the French authorities are not impressed.

Rising temperatures are melting the ice that holds the mountains together, with melting glaciers causing flooding.

Two mountaineers have been pursued by police after landing their plane less than 400 metres from the Mont Blanc summit.