Swiss resorts plan for less snow
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Swiss ski resorts plan for a future where less snow - through global warming - threatens business, writes Imogen Foulkes.
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Off-piste skiing, snowboarding and trekking are putting Alpine wildlife under stress, a study concludes.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - The 2009 Alpine ski world championships in Val d'Isere have run into more problems, with the chief executive of the organizing committee, Jean-Paul Pierrat, resigning.
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SOCHI, Russia  - It takes more than a little imagination to see this Russian ski resort in the same bracket as St. Moritz or Aspen.
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A drought-hit resort town in Canada's Pacific rain forest is trucking in water to avert a total shutdown, but hotels and other businesses will have to severely limit consumption, the mayor said on Friday.
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The Malta Tourism Authority's Zurich office, in collaboration with Air Malta, recently published a 16-page colour brochure to promote wellness in Malta during the winter and shoulder months in the German and ...
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GENEVA -- Spring blossoms are popping up all over the Austrian Alps. Geneva's official chestnut tree has already sprouted leaves and flowers. Swedes are still picking mushrooms.
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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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A dusting of snow at the weekend brought some relief to anxious European ski resorts, where snow- making machines were out in force when it was cold enough.
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DAVOS, Switzerland -- More than 2,000 of the world's rich and powerful decamped from this luxurious ski resort yesterday after five days of talks on how to improve the world, particularly by ending poverty, fighting disease, and bringing peace to the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Travel: Mat Smith finds there's more than one way to hurtle down a Slovenian mountain at speed. But whatever method you choose it'll be a lot cheaper than in many neighbouring European resorts.
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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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Rain is forecast for Saturday in Spa. Here's what the team will do to cope...
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Beijing is planning to reduce the cityâs motor traffic during the games to improve air quality and ease traffic flow.
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Neutral Switzerland backed plans on   Sunday to make it harder for asylum-seekers to gain entry to   the rich Alpine state, according to early poll projections.
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Scientists in Zurich have developed a computer programme that could help preserve Switzerland's alpine landscape while at the same time promoting tourism.
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President Vladimir Putin promised rich natural snow and no traffic jams as he presented the case on Wednesday for Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi to stage the 2014 Winter Olympics .