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Dramatic Loss in Snowfall for Los Angeles-Area Mountains Predicted
By midcentury, snowfall on
Los Angeles–area
mountains will be 30 to 40
percent less than it was at
the end of the 20th century,
... > full story
Warm Ocean Drives Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss
Ocean waters melting the
undersides of Antarctic ice
shelves, not icebergs
calving into the sea, are
responsible for most of the
continent's ice loss, a new
... > full story
Weightlessness of Space Used to Design Better Materials for Earth
Scientists are using the
weightlessness of space to
design stronger materials
here on Earth. ... > full story
Scientists Find Extensive Glacial Retreat in Mount Everest Region
Researchers taking a new
look at the snow and ice
covering Mount Everest and
the national park that
surrounds it are finding
... > full story
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Decline in Snow Cover Spells Trouble for Many Plants, Animals
May 7, 2013 — For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from ... > full story -
NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
May 6, 2013 — A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much ... > full story -
Scientists Investigate Release of Bromine in Polar Regions
April 26, 2013 — Researchers have employed a novel measurement device for new studies in ... > full story -
Sunlit Snow Triggers Atmospheric Cleaning, Ozone Depletion in the Arctic
April 24, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that sunlit snow is the major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and destroy ... > full story -
New Insight Into Accelerating Summer Ice Melt on the Antarctic Peninsula
April 14, 2013 — A new 1,000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost 10-fold, and mostly since the mid-20th century. Summer ice melt affects the stability ... > full story -
Snowflakes Falling on Cameras: What Snow Looks Like in Midair
April 10, 2013 — University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don’t look much like those ... > full story -
Dramatic Retreat of the Andean Glaciers Over the Last 30 Years
April 8, 2013 — The glaciers in the tropical Andes shrunk between 30 and 50% in 30 years, which represents the highest rate observed over the last three centuries. Scientists have recently published a summary which ... > full story -
Thin Clouds Drove Greenland's Record-Breaking 2012 Ice Melt
April 3, 2013 — If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Three million cubic kilometers of ice won't wash into the ocean overnight, but ... > full story -
Summer Melt Season Getting Longer on Antarctic Peninsula
March 27, 2013 — New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice ... > full story -
Climate Models Are Not Good Enough, Researcher Argues
March 25, 2013 — Only a few climate models were able to reproduce the observed changes in extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 ... > full story
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