World News 03-12-2003 who: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) what: Warns that skiing holidays could become a thing of the past where: Turin, Italy when: Yesterday snippet: With global temperatures expected to rise by more than 5C in the next century, climatologist Rolf Burki told delgates at a world conference on sport and the environment that climate change "will have the effect of pushing more and more winter sports higher and higher up mountains, concentrating impacts in ever-decreasing high altitude areas." Ski resorts in lower altitudes face bankruptcy, concludes The Guardian, "while Australia may have no ski resorts at all by 2070." [... more]

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