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Who are the 'Last Renovation' climate protesters crashing sporting events?

When French environmental campaigners Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) briefly halted the Tour de France in the Alps on Tuesday, they hooked into a global audience. It's just one of several sporting events targeted this summer by climate activists to get their message across.

Radio France Internationale

Tour de France 2022 stage 13 preview: Route map and profile of road to Saint-Etienne today

The riders leave the Alps but will still feel this lumpy stage in their tired legs

The Independent UK

Glaciers in Swiss Alps draped with blankets to protect them from extreme heat

Some fear that Switzerland’s glaciers could disappear by 2100

Evening Standard

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How the Tour de France helped me think about geology in a new way

As I write this, the Tour de France has reached its halfway point, with the cyclists climbing the Alps. Or, to put it another way, the race has left Armorican continent and entered the folded relics of the Valais Ocean and the Briançonnais microcontinent.

The Conversation

Jonas Vingegaard takes yellow jersey as Tadej Pogacar feels Tour de France pressure

There was a twist in the Alps as Slovenia’s Pogacar seeks another Tour de France title

The Independent UK

Jonas Vingegaard takes yellow jersey as Tadej Pogacar feels the pressure

There was a twist in the Alps as Slovenia’s Pogacar seeks another Tour de France title.

The Independent UK

Heidiland: On the trail of a children’s classic in the Swiss Alps

Bernadette Fallon follows in the footsteps of Johanna Spyri’s multimillion best-selling children’s book character on a trip to Maienfeld

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Tour de France: Vingegaard takes yellow as Pogacar cracks on stage 11 – as it happened

Jumbo-Visma’s Jonas Vingegaard powered to the top of the Col du Granon and took the yellow jersey from the isolated Tadej Pogacar

The Guardian - UK

2023 VW Touareg Spied Testing In The Alps With Loads Of Camouflage

Overkill or is VW up to something?

Motor1

Tour de France 2022 stage 10 preview: Route map and profile through Alps to Megeve today

There will be fresh legs as the Tour de France returns from its second rest day

The Independent UK

Tour de France 2022 stage 10 preview: Route map and profile of 148km road through the Alps to Megeve

There will be fresh legs as the Tour de France returns from its second rest day

The Independent UK

Italian Alps glacier collapse death toll rises to 9, with 3 still missing

Italian authorities have opened a formal investigation after a chunk of the glacier fell onto hikers on Sunday

Evening Standard

Italians find more victims of glacier collapse

Italian rescue teams on Wednesday found two more victims of the glacier collapse in the Alps that is feared to have killed up to 12 people and is being blamed on rising temperatures.

Reuters

France travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

From sea to ski, culture to cuisine, our Gallic neighbour ticks just about every holiday box going

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Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before

Peak at Sonnblick in Austrian Alps has melted more than a month before previous record time

Reuters

Five Italian climbers still missing after glacier collapse

Five Italian climbers were still missing more than 48 hours after the deadly collapse of part of a mountain glacier in the Alps, a tragedy that is being blamed on rising temperatures.

The Independent UK

Italian Alps: 17 people still missing after glacier collapses

Unseasonable high temperatures have been blamed for the disaster

Reuters

Rescue teams scan mountains for missing after Italian glacier collapse

Helicopter crews and drones flew over the Italian Alps on Monday searching for 13 people missing after part of a mountain glacier collapsed, killing at least seven people in a disaster experts linked to rising temperatures.

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Daily Mirror

Missing Brit tourist found dead at bottom of cliff after going for 'rough track' hike

Gerard Christopher Turner, 56, was on vacation with his family in Lezzono, in Italy's Alps when he decided to go for a solo hike - but several hours later he called his wife to say he was walking along a "rough track" and then vanished

Al Jazeera

Italian Alps glacier collapse: Rescuers resume search; six killed

Sixteen people are thought to be missing as authorities describe the disaster as an ‘unthinkable carnage’.

Evening Standard

Dolomites: Six hikers killed after piece of glacier breaks loose in Italian Alps

A chunk of ice slammed into hikers on a popular trail near Rock Point, leaving at least 9 injured

Radio France Internationale

Six killed in Italian Alps avalanche after glacier collapse Sunday

Six people were killed and eight others injured in an avalanche that was touched off after the largest glacier in the Italian Alps collapsed due to higher-than-average temperatures, according to Italian emergency services.

Bangkok Post

Glacier collapses in Italian Alps, six dead

ROME: An avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others on Sunday, an emergency services spokeswoman said.

Reuters

Glacier collapses in Italian Alps, killing at least six

Parts of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday amid record temperatures, local authorities said, killing at least six people and injuring eight.

Tribune News Service

‘No place like home’ for Johnson returning to sleaze and strikes

After an eight-day summit dash from Rwanda to Spain via Germany’s Bavarian Alps, Boris Johnson told reporters he was “keen” to get back to Britain.

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