Muddy slopes, slushy peaks, unused lifts &#151; this town in the French Alps is living out the nightmare of many a ski resort in a century scientists
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Muddy slopes, slushy peaks, unused lifts &#151; this town in the French Alps is living out the nightmare of many a ski resort in a century scientists say is doomed to keep getting warmer.
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European ski resorts are hoping for sudden snowfalls to rescue the start of their season.
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Miners and tourists alike are contaminating Argentina's caves, say scientists, who warn that fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites are at risk.
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In this remote and rusting town on the barren steppes of Central Asia, the space race and the Sputnik era seem much more than a memory.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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BORMIO, Italy -- Before yesterday's slalom, US Ski Team executive director Bill Marolt was still gloating a bit about the way his skiers have dominated Europeans in the speed events -- downhill and super-G -- in their backyards, "where it hurts most."
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Global warming poses a serious threat to Alpine ski resorts and the regional economies that depend on them, especially in Germany.
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"Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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ARE, Sweden  - When Ted Ligety skidded out of the slalom in the super-combined on Thursday, he rounded off a disappointing day for the Americans at the Alpine skiing world championships.
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KITZBUEHEL, Austria  - Bad weather in the Austrian  resort of Kitzbuehel appears to have damaged World Cup leader  Bode Miller's chances of matching one of Alpine skiing's  greatest records.
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Courchevel 1850 might claim to be the most charismatic ski resort - it's where Posh and Becks went in their prime, last season, along with many a diva and divo - but there is another faraway place which, ...
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany  - Global warming  is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter  resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades  has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the middle of one of the nation's worst environmental nightmares.
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A dusting of snow at the weekend brought some relief to anxious European ski resorts, where snow-making machines are out in force when it's cold enough.
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Police in Mauguio, a small village in south-east France, are probing a mystery that is as puzzling as it is insalubrious: a rain of faeces that has dirtied houses and cars for years.
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There are fears for the tourist industry in Harbin, China, with the famous ice festival an apparent victim of rising temperatures.
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BOHMTE, Germany -- Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along the two-lane main street, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to scamper for their lives.