The full extent of the climate crisis has been underlined by the decision to host next weekend's Ski World Cup at the Swiss mountain resort of Adelboden on artificial snow, as unseasonably high temperatures in some of Europe's most popular and lucrative winter sports regions have left slopes bare of snow and instead showing mud and grass to the world.
Much of the Alps just don’t look right for this time of year. Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe’s central mountains are allowing grass to blanket hillsides across the region, causing headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white.
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