BOLOGNA -- After the installation of the Everest-Pyramid ABC-GAW Station at 5079 m asl, along the Khumbu Valley, in February 2006, the station is quite automatically running. A technical check of instruments and quality assurance of data are guaranteed by remote access of every instrument and acquisition system (from Italy and France), but also thanks to Nepalese staff present 365 days per year at Pyramid Laboratory.

WASHINGTON, Usa -- The section related to high altitude areas (High Elevation – HE) has been officially introduced in the CEOP Phase II. The Ev-K²-CNR Scientific Board President and SHARE Project Coordinator, Dr. Gianni Tartari, came back from Washington, where he recently participated to the International Implementation Planning Meeting CEOP/IGWCO.

WASHINGTON, Usa --  The Planning  Meeting joint session CEOP/IGWCO, which will involve a large number of  worldwide climate and atmosphere experts this week at the National Academy of Sciences of Washingtonis underway. Dr. Gianni Tartari, Ev-K²-CNR Committee, and Alessandro Perotto, CEM (Epson Meteo Centre), will attend a meeting.

 BERGAMO, Italy -- The collaboration between the Ev-K²-CNR Committee and the Project “Atmospheric Brown Clouds� (ABC) of the United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP) will be extended for the Phase II (2008-2012). The Ev-K²-CNR president, Agostino Da Polenza, has received the official announcement today.

LUKLA, Nepal -- The CEOP Station of Lukla, in the Khumbu valley is operative. Giampietro Verza,  Ev-K²-CNR technician stations, has given us the good news directly from the Nepal today. The CEOP monitoring net stations, represents the first in the SHARE project, the technological challenge of Ev-K²-CNR about climatic monitoring at high altitude.

BERGAMO, Italy -- The melting of the alpine glaciers contributes to risks for the future of Italy’s energy supply. Over the past century, the Italian Forni glacier, has lost 40 per cent of its length, receding from its previous length of 6 km to 3.5 Km.