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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 three generations (François Cazzanelli, Christoph...

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 winter in the place where we are writing about it. Th...

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 consumption and population it has rocketed. This increase...

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 recorded; the ten warmest years occurred after 2005, ...

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-economic thinking.In the new article by Prof. Mar...

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 processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosyste...

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, today this perspective must be placed among those...

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 pristine Alpine forests is skating on very thin ice...

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 remote or apparently wild, no location exists that h...