Resorts across the Alpine region have had to postpone opening and even those that are open have a limited number of usable slopes.

CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat

The wines of Savoy, in the Alpine region of eastern France, have become so popular in recent years that they may be elevated beyond the miscellaneous category sometime soon.

WSJ: The Unique Charms of 'Miscellaneous Wines' | On Wine by Lettie Teague

Many meteorologists and scientists say that a single warm winter is all part of the natural variations of an unpredictable climate, but a new climatic survey has reported that Europe's Alpine region is now warmer than at any other time since the Middle Ages, so could the current conditions be a taste of things to come?

CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat

In this respect, the legacy of IGCP 567 will be a strong community of practitioners who are well disposed towards archaeoseismology, advocating a holistic approach that will eventually contribute to the establishment of an essential earthquake culture in the Alpine-Himalayan region, occasionally confronted with the inevitable earthquake catastrophe.

UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes

But despite the hype, seeing really is believing when it comes to Switzerland's Alpine heartland, a region perfectly explored on a long summer weekend.

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The settlers worked hard, clearing the forests along the valley floors, and making their living from livestock in a region where few crops grow well, but Alpine meadows are pasture for goats and cattle which produce unrivalled milk and cheese.

BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail

With somewhere in the region of 2, 500 business leaders and politicians expected in the picturesque alpine ski resort for the five-day event, Klaus Schwab told CNN he sensed a determination among them to seize the initiative this year.

CNN: 'Mr Davos' optimistic ahead of 40th annual meeting