Posts Tagged ‘alpine’

French police seize thousands of cannabis plants in Alpine raid

An eight-month investigation uncovered an enormous growing operation near Grenoble. Police this week seized 4,000 vines of cannabis, worth around 1,100 kilos, from a vast indoor cultivation warehouse operated by French and Albanian nationals in a village in south-east France. According to the public prosecutor’s office, after an eight-month investigation, six people were arrested and […]

Arizona Wild Horse Advocates Buy Up Dwindling Alpine Herd

PRESCOTT, Ariz.—Simone Netherlands grabbed a handful of green alfalfa hay and called out to Apache, guarding a small band of Alpine wild horses at the opposite end of the corral. The young stallion lowered its head warily and remained motionless at seeing a visitor standing beside her. “C’mon,” Netherlands said to the horse gently, waving […]

Kitzbuhel: A Tyrolean Alpine Gem

On our journey to experience the best of the Alps and bucket-list hiking opportunities we visited Kitzbuhel for three glorious days. This stylish mountain resort is located 20 miles south of the German-Austrian border in the western Austrian province of Tyrol. As a member of the distinguished “Best of the Alps” collection, Kitzbuhel has been […]

Europe’s closed borders push migrants to make dangerous Alpine crossing into France

As borders within Europe become increasingly difficult to cross due to pandemic restrictions, some migrants and asylum seekers that entered Europe through the Balkans are trying to reach France by hiking across the Alps from Italy. The Italian-French Alps can represent the last difficult border crossing in migrants’ arduous journey. But hiking across them, especially […]

Iran to send eight skiers to Alpine World Championships

TEHRAN – Iran will send four men and four women skiers to the 2021 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. The competitions have gotten underway in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy from Feb. 8 and will last until Feb. 21. Porya Saveh Shemshaki, Morteza Jafari, Behnam Kia Shemshaki and Nima Baha will compete in the championships as Iran’s […]

‘Martian landscape’: Sahara sand covers Alpine snow as early desert wind from Africa turns Europe orange (PHOTOS)

Photographs from France showed orange skies above layers of snow as the sandy wind from the Sahara, known as sirocco, made its way across Europe weeks earlier than expected. While pictures of the surreal scenes flooded social media on Saturday, the French are actually quite used to the annual phenomenon: the sandy wind is “not […]

What a Frozen Alpine Goat Can Teach Us About Famous Ice Mummies

DNA is especially important now in understanding our ancestors and the past. However, there is a problem in that it can often be difficult to analyze and preserve. The discovery of a mummified chamois, a goat like animal that is indigenous to mountainous areas of Europe, is now helping experts to evaluate DNA without damaging […]

France Deploys Troops to Alpine Border after Generation Identity Demonstration

The French Interior Ministry has announced the deployment of troops to “protect the integrity” of its Alpine border with Italy after a dramatic demonstration by the Generation Identity (GI) organization which involved hundreds of activists, aircraft and a standoff with an anti-white group involved in smuggling nonwhite invaders into France through the previously unprotected border. […]

Lab-grown skin works like natural one for first time

First ‘HIV-to-HIV liver transplant’ performed by US doctors “Up until now, artificial skin development has been hampered by the fact that the skin lacked important organs, such as hair follicles and exocrine glands, which allow the skin to play its important role in regulation. With this new technique, we have successfully grown skin that replicates […]

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