In a blow to the ski industry, and to the environment, Eurostar appears to have cancelled the direct Ski train service between England and the French Alps. “Skiers and snowboarders are gutted by the loss of this hugely popular train. This cancellation is a damaging step backwards by Eurostar. While there are indirect train routes […]

In one of a number of initiatives to cut its CO2 emissions, the classic French ski resort of Megève has switched its entire ski bus fleet (known as MegBus)  to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The ski centre, which is already famous for having a fleet of horse-drawn carriages to transport guests around its […]

SilverStar Mountain Resort in BC, Canada has been awarded the 2020 Golden Eagle Award by the American National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) for its work on the environment including reducing their impact of climate change. All of Silver Star’s lifts run on hydro electricity and its mountain ops fleets have been consistently updated to the […]

In a new paper, published in Nature, researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and the Environment and Climate Change Canada, working as part of European Space Agency’s (ESA’s)  Climate Change Initiative, have reliably estimated the amount of annual snow mass and changes in snow cover in the northern hemisphere between 1980 and 2018. Warming […]

Les Arcs installed sixty solar panels on the Aiguille Rouge cable car and Varet last season and the French resort is currently studying the photovoltaic potential of each and every lift, a resort spokesperson said. Photovoltaic panels have also been integrated into the roof of the Bourg Saint Maurice aqua-leisure complex in the valley. They […]

After successful initial trials, Cairngorm Mountain ski area above Aviemore, which is currently still open for snowsports, has begun using hydrotreated vegetable oil across their mountain operations to help reduce our emissions by up to 90%. The oil is being used to power the centre’s fleet of snow clearing machines, its snow making fan guns, […]

Big Sky Resort in Montana has announced that they are now buying ‘Renewable Energy Credits’  equivalent to the annual electrical consumption of their 38 lifts. That means that an equivalent amount of green energy is produced to the power needed to run the lifts. “Lifts are obviously essential to our business – and they are […]

The Norwegian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, working with clothing company Bergans, have launched an initiative to ‘Save the Seasons’ in a bid to have them added, and thus preserved, as part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Pyramids, temples, Stonehenge, reefs and… seasons? Everything previously included on UNESCO’s World Heritage list is either […]

What’s generally regarded as the world’s longest lift-accessed ski run, the famous Vallée Blanche above Chamonix, looks set to lose its status, for a large part of the winter at least, as climate change melts away the Mer de Glace glacier beneath it. The occasionally 20km long run, with a potential vertical descent of around […]