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'Las Vegas of the Alps' to vote on casino ban

Liechtenstein is renowned for its Alpine scenery and historic castles, but the tiny principality also punches above its weight when it comes to a more down-to-earth tourist attraction - namely casinos.

Reuters

Shrub studies show Alps suffering disastrous decline in snow cover

Researchers in Italy have traced 600 years of snow cover in Val Ventina, a region of the Italian Alps, thanks to the study of shrubs. The results show a steady decline in the annual amount of snow.

Radio France Internationale

Davos 2023: The World Economic Forum explained

The World Economic Forum (WEF) returns to its snowy winter residency in the Swiss Alps this week with a record attendance of business and government leaders.

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Davos 2024: What is it, who is attending, and why is it controversial?

Kicking off on January 15, this year’s World Economic Forum's theme is Rebuilding Trust

Evening Standard

British woman dies in avalanche in French Alps

Coroner of Chamonix has opened an inquiry into the death of the trekker

Wales Online

British woman killed in avalanche in French Alps

The woman, 45, was airlifted off Mount Blanc glacier but could not be saved

The Independent UK

British woman killed by avalanche while hiking in French Alps

Mountain rescuers were unable to save her

Manchester Evening News

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British woman killed by avalanche while skiing in French Alps

Police authorities in the French Alps have confirmed the 45-year-old was hiking with her partner and a guide when the avalanche was triggered at 5.30pm on Saturday.

Daily Record

British woman killed on Mont Blanc after sudden avalanche buries her under slab of snow

A British woman was killed in the Chamonix valley in Mont Blanc, French Alps, yesterday as skiers have been warned that the "avalanche hazard is going to increase dramatically"

Daily Mirror

British woman dies after avalanche in French Alps

Forty-five-year-old and her partner were hiking with a mountain guide when accident happened

The Guardian - UK

Alps snow: Series of storms set to bring major snowfall for delighted skiers

Resorts set for ‘gamechanging’ snowfall after tricky start to the season due to unseasonable January heat

Evening Standard

Keen cyclist opens up on devastating moment he was told he had prostate cancer

Coleraine man Michael Currid was fit as a fiddle in his early 60s and had just returned from a cycling trip to the Alps in 2016 when he started to feel unwell

Belfast Live

A young Prince Harry convinced himself Diana was still alive and in hiding after Paris car crash

In his brand new book Spare, Prince Harry details how he convinced himself that his mother had faked her own death and was living in a Parisian flat of log cabin in the Swiss Alps, and would send for him and his brother any day

Chronicle Live

Davos to host leaders, CEOs amid weighty global issues

The Swiss town of Davos will host 52 heads of state and government and nearly 600 CEOs as the World Economic Forum hosts its annual meeting in the Alps next week

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Study: Two-thirds of glaciers on track to disappear by 2100

A new study calculates that two-thirds of the world's glaciers will disappear by the end of the century at current climate change trends

Daily Mirror

UK to get huge new indoor ski resort as climate change melts Alps snow

The new ski resort, which will be south of Brecon Beacons National Park, will have Britain's biggest indoor ski runs and be one of the biggest of its kind in the world

The Independent UK

Satellite images of Alps show dramatic drop in snowfall over year amid record temperatures

Photos taken just months apart reveal how much snow has melted, leaving mountain tops green

The Guardian - UK

Record warm winter in parts of Europe forces closure of ski slopes

Resorts open hiking trails and lifts for mountain bikes amid unseasonably high temperatures and lack of snow

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Climate change: High temperatures, sparse snowfall in Europe's Alps worries ski industry

Much of the Alps does not look right for this time of year following unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe, including record high January temperatures in Switzerland. The sparse snowfall has seen grass blanketing the continent’s central mountains, worrying the ski industry and winter sports organisers and reviving concerns about…

Evening Standard

Record temperatures hit ski resorts across Europe

Record warm winter weather has meant green rolling hillsides instead of blankets of snow at some European ski resorts for the start of the new year.

Radio France Internationale

Mayor in French Alps remains defiant despite criticism for suing hikers

A mayor in the French Alps famous for fighting mass tourism on the Mont Blanc has come under fire for filing a legal complaint against two people camping on the mountain's peak. On Monday, he reiterated his vow to protect the popular climbing trails from "wackos".

Daily Mirror

Mark Wright shares clips of his post-Christmas skiing trip in the French Alps

Reality star-turned-presenter Mark Wright jetted off to Courchevel in France to enjoy a skiing break, sharing clips to Instagram from a ski lift and at an outdoor bar

The Independent UK

Alpine slopes face snow shortage in unseasonably warm winter

Much of the Alps just don’t look right for this time of year

The Conversation

Skiing in the Alps faces a bleak future thanks to climate change

Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, but the world climate was still largely pre-industrial.

ABC News

Drought decimated bogong moth numbers. Now flooding rains are bringing them back to the Australian Alps

They weigh "less than a Tic Tac", yet bogong moths manage to migrate 1,000 kilometres in their billions each year. Scientists are concerned weather extremes may be their undoing.

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