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UPDATED: 11:16, December 15, 2006 |
| Europe witnesses warm winter |
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A bear lies awake on a trunk as it cannot go into hibernation, at the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, capital of Russia, Dec. 13, 2006. Moscow is witnessing a warm winter this year, with the highest temperature standing at 4 degrees centigrade on Wednesday, 8.5 degrees centigrade higher than the average temperature in the same period of past years.
The French Alps are covered with less snow than usual on Dec. 8, 2006. After a record warm November delaying snowfall in the Alps, an OECD report has warned that climate change poses "serious risks" to snow reliability in ski areas and to the economies that depend on it.
Ducks swim on a lake at the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, capital of Russia, Dec. 13, 2006. Moscow is witnessing a warm winter this year, with the highest temperature standing at 4 degrees centigrade on Wednesday, 8.5 degrees centigrade higher than the average temperature in the same period of past years.
A jogger runs in a park in Berlin, Germany Nov. 16, 2006. The temperature of Berlin hit 17 degrees centigrade on Nov. 16.
An employee of the winter-sports resort in Font-Romeu in the Pyrenees works a snow cannon as warm weather leaves slopes without snow Dec. 1, 2006. An unusually warm winter has broken records across Europe, leaving skiers short of snow in the Alps and Spanish sunbathers catching a late tan.
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