In warming world, skiing tries to stay snow white by going green

SAALBACH: The snow fell on Saalbach on Friday, dusting the Austrian valley white for the World Championship men’s giant slalom and briefly disguising the issues facing the sport in an increasingly warm and hostile environment.“We know about global warming,” Susanna Sieff, Sustainability Director for the International Ski Federation (FIS) told AFP. “We have to struggle with this. And let me say we are the first victim.”

For the first 10 days of the championships, skiers flew down a strip of artificial snow on a mountainside otherwise completely green…