On the heels of the planet’s hottest year on record, new research out of Dartmouth has found that seasonal snowpack across the Northern Hemisphere has shrunk significantly over the last 40 years due to global warming — potentially putting millions of people at risk of worsening water instability. “Once you get beyond that threshold, you start to lose an increasing …
The amount of snow that stays on the ground is rapidly dwindling due to human-caused climate change, threatening the water supply of hundreds of millions of people. In the new study, researchers at Dartmouth University sifted through four decades of precipitation and snowpack data across the northern hemisphere in March, when spring thaw begins to turn snow into water. But …
An aerial view of Mammoth Mountain from above Mammoth Creek on Oct. 27. Researchers demonstrated how the West’s mountain environments could change under persistent low- to no-snow conditions Jeffrey Mount, a water scientist at the Public Policy Institute of California who did not work on the study, said that level of snow loss could fundamentally alter life in the Golden …
