This summer I cycled from British Columbia to New Mexico documenting climate change along the Continental Divide. It was my second long-distance bike ride as...

Chris O’Brien fought his first wildfire in 1989. Today, he is Deputy Fire Chief of the Lefthand Fire Protection District. He and his team protect about 52 sq...

Travelling by bike means experiencing every distinct element of every landscape. You see the changing geography, hear different animals, and notice changes i...

I entered the United States in Roosville, where British Columbia meets Montana. At first sight, the grass was literally less green on the US side of the fenc...

Salal is one of the toughest plants he knows, Guujaaw told me. Never would he have expected to see it dying off. And yet, this is exactly what started happen...

Davos. You will know it as the place where the leaders of the world meet each year at the end of January, at the World Economic Forum. To Swiss snow-sports e...

I arrived in Chamonix on Monday, 19 November. Loïc Desage was already waiting for me outside his house near Argentière. Loïc is a mountain guide and ski patr...

South Tyrol is full of apples. An area larger than 18,000 hectares is covered with plantations. They stretch along the Etsch river for more than 100 km, from...

Storm Vaia hit Italy at the end of October. An unusual dip of the polar stream, extending as far south as Northwestern Africa, collided with the unseasonably...

Shrinking glaciers, the typical image we have of climate change in the Alps, is not a major concern anymore in Slovenia. There are only two small glaciers he...

Slovenia is the world champion of bee-keeping. The small alpine country with a population of just over two million counts more beekeepers per inhabitant than...

I could not have imagined a better way to start this journey than by being welcomed and hosted so warmly by Paolo Rumiz and Irene in their book- and map-fill...