Mountain Research Initiative - MRI

Looking Beyond Glaciers to Understand Mountain Water Security

A new paper rethinks mountain water security, calling for a better understanding of the complex interaction between glacial meltwater and coupled human-natural systems.
State of the Cryosphere 2022

Growing Climate-Induced Changes in Polar and Mountain Regions Causing Increasing Losses Across the Globe
UNESCO Finds That Some Iconic World Heritage Glaciers Will Disappear by 2050

New UNESCO data highlight the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. But it is still possible to save the other…

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Global NewsState of the Cryosphere 2022: Growing Climate-Induced Changes in Polar and Mountain Regions Causing Increasing Losses Across the Globe

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that total Arctic summer sea...

JobsDoctorate in Hydro-Glaciological Modelling

ETH’s Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), and Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürich, Switzerland

In the part of the project linked to...

MRI NewsMapping Mountain Vegetation Using Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing: Challenges in Global Data Access and Image Classification

This MRI-funded synthesis workshop on very-high-resolution remote sensing of treeline ecotones...

01/12/2022 - 02/12/2022

Encore une transition ? Les territoires de montagne face aux changements socio-environnementaux

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