Too little too late? Environmentalists covered up 295,275 square feet of the Presena Glacier this summer in Italy in a bid to slowdown the melting.

Having lost 40% of its mass in the decade leading up to 2003 due to global warming, environmental authorities at the Presena Glacier above Passo Tonale attempted to cover the glaciar’s surface with an insulating and reflective ‘blanket’ this summer in a effort to slow the rate of melting. Continue reading ‘Italy’s Presena Glacier cover up’

Pitzal was the sight of an all-weather snowmaking test for the Sochi Olympic Winter Games. Organizers want to avoid the problems Vancouver experienced with the snow.

Organizers of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games are looking for ways eliminate any chance of repeating the scene at Cypress Mountain this past winter when the ski area struggled to provide enough snow to build terrain features for freestyle event because of an unusually warm weather spell prevented organizers from operating the snowmaking equipment. Continue reading ‘Russian officials inspect all weather snowmaking system ahead of Sochi Olympics’