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Energy supplies at risk from shrinking glaciers
The shrinkage of the Mer de Glace in the French Alps is having a tangible impact on the use of hydropower.
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Stable glaciers in Central Asia
Global warming is not causing all the world's glaciers to melt at the same rate.
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ClimChAlp Project completed
The final conference in Laufen/D on 12 March 2008 marked the end of the Interreg IIIB Alpine Space Project "ClimChAlp" (Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in the Alpine Space).
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Switzerland's first village hotel
The entire village of Vná in the Lower Engadine is to become a hotel as of May 1.
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