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In search of the lost ice

Published on 12/05/2023 On the evening of August 11th, 2022, as part of the 25th Cervino Cine Mountain in Valtournenche, three great alpinists from...

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200 ways to say snow, plus 1 by Marco Grasso

Published on 15/02/2022 And once again it didn’t come. Or, at least, it didn’t come as we expected and possibly it won’t, in another non-wintry win...

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Climate change, melting glaciers and hydropower by Prof. Marco Grasso

Published on 28/01/2022 The temperature on Earth has been climbing steadily for the past two centuries, but since the post-war boom in both consump...

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Wrapping glaciers to save them? - by Marco Grasso

Published on 29/10/2021 The summer of 2021 was the hottest on record both in Europe and the United States; July 2021 was the hottest month ever rec...

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The low carbon transition: the need to change and the search of new ways by Marco Grasso

Published on 06/08/2021“We need to change”. Breaking free from the ubiquity of fossil fuels is one of the most powerful narratives of current socio...

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Our relationship with nature: from protected areas to rewilding - by Marco Grasso

Published on 16/07/2021 Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. It’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural proces...

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Wandering in the mountains and other stories. Climate change and perspectives - by Marco Grasso

Published on 28/05/2021 If until a decade ago it was possible to believe that ecological changes could be contained within certain safe boundaries,...

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The abandoned ski resorts in the Italian Alps: climate change creeps inexorably upwards by Professor Marco Grasso

Published on 16/04/2021 There’s no business like snow business, but, thanks to climate change, the fairytale of immaculate white slopes framed by p...

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Microplastics "on the rocks" by Professor Marco Grasso

Published on 12/03/2021 There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. Or so the refrain goes. But when home is an Earth where, however re...