Gerd Estermann News Today

1000s of people took to the streets of Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday to protest the planned destruction of a glacier to connect 2 Austrian

Protesters say proposals for the Pitztal-Ötztal area would cause significant damage to the ‘highly sensitive’ glacial landscape

In the Alps, ski resorts are desperately battling climate change—and local resistance Denise Hruby © Photograph by Claudia Ziegler, Anzenberger/Redux In Austrias Tyrol province, the development of ski resorts is colliding with local resistance to the damage it would do, all in the face of a warming climate that endangers a way of life. In the crisp , bracing air at 11,000 feet, skiers on the Pitztal glacier in Tyrol can see on a clear day as far as Switzerland and Italy, acr...