Water in the mountains
Water: a bridge between earth, glaciers and sky.
Mountain Ecosystem
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Boreus hyemalis
Snow fleas are small insects that live on the edge of snow and ice sheets, moving by crawling slowly or by jumping. Like small crickets in appearance, ...
Lagopus muta
Of all alpine birds, the rock ptarmigan is among the best adapted to cold. In wintertime, it lives in grasslands and snowy terrain above the treeline. ...
Carlo Barbante (National Research Council - CNR) explains how the international Ice Memory Project aims to preserve ice samples taken from mountains all ...