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Flint tools carried across the Pyrenees reveal the routes prehistoric humans took.
Researchers have been estimating the vast numbers of insects, including many pollinators, migrating at one location in the Pyrenees. But climate change and habitat loss could affect their abundance.
Many mountain lakes in the Pyrenees have turned green, a phenomenon that is a warning about the multiple pressures on ecosystems.
A deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, following one in Morocco, highlights the risks in the region.
Meet the archeologist who is overhauling our understanding of early human history.
Mountain ecosystems are not as pristine as we may think – and climate change could trigger devastating transformations that will affect us all.
Riders in the 2021 Tour de France will ride more than 2,100 miles (3,400 km) over the 21 flat and mountainous stages of the race. And they will burn an incredible amount of energy while doing so.
We think of mountains as remote and little affected by human activity. Unfortunately, the negative impacts of what we do has important implications for nature, wildlife and human society.
In the Catalan Pyrenees, women shepherds and cattle ranchers try to valorise the ancestral agropastoral culture to save the mountains from climate change.
New research finds tiny particles in the atmosphere had been carried nearly 100km. Should we be worried?
When the road heads higher and the mercury is rising, the world’s top cyclists get to test the quality of their preparation.
Top contributors
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Nottingham Trent University
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Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
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Insect Migration Researcher, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral researcher and professor, Universitat de Barcelona
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Postdoctoral researcher, Chair in Agroecology and Food systems, Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya
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Professor of Geology, West Virginia University
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Professor of Engineering Practice, Purdue University
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Research Chair, Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Management, Keele University
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Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate professor in Prehistory, Universitat de Barcelona