Mountain world in danger : climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe
by Sten Nilsson
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The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests show more are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsso show lessTags
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