Alpine Schadenfreude

Are there many mice in the tundra?

Most reindeer live in the Arctic tundra.

Are there many arctic foxes in the tundra?

The Kea is the only alpine parrot.

Alpine pastures occur at higher altitudes and mesophytic forests on more fertile soils.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far.

For nature lovers, the land of Tajikistan is 93 mountainous with ethereal alpine lakes dotted all over.

Italy joined the Germans in the Battle of France, fighting the fortified Alpine Line at the border.

BERLIN The latest G 7 summit, in the beautiful Alpine setting of Garmisch Partenkirchen in Germany, has come and gone.

and Perspolis F.C.. Audi also sponsors winter sports The Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is named after the company.

A group of Kazakhstani photographers have recently toured the mountainous region of Altai in in the country's east, known for its picturesque alpine scenery.

The summit was first climbed in 1868 by D. W. Freshfield, A. W. Moore, and C. Tucker of the Alpine Club, with the guide François Devouassoud.

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia.

And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

Blogger Ident from Trikala, Central Greece, takes his readers to a journey through the Alpine landscapes of the Greek countryside, capturing the South Pindos villages and its landmarks.

Tajikistan, 93 mountainous with ethereal alpine lakes dotted all over, is a veritable shrine for nature lovers, providing they can live with the rutted roads and burdensome bureaucracy.

We evolved as a species in the savanna lands of Africa, but then you see humans migrating into new environments, into desert lands, into jungles, into the ice age tundra of Siberia tough, tough environment into the Americas, into Australasia.

Uninspired by the prospect of spending my time up in the Tundra poking around for diamonds , or languishing in a radar station in St. James as a meteorologist in the Barbados, he also felt that computer science was a career with legs.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far. Only in 1993 did the EU officially recognize that membership for all the former Soviet bloc countries could be a long term goal.

It was precisely the concept of caution that had long ago made Swiss bankers the guardians of the world's major assets no excessive risk, but security for money, whether the world fell apart outside the Alpine republic or not.

The continent of Zealandia, which separated from Australia 85 million years ago and stretches from New Caledonia in the north to New Zealand s subantarctic islands in the south, is now being torn apart along the transform boundary marked by the Alpine Fault.