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Snowpack is shrinking across the Northern Hemisphere


It means even less water for already drought-prone places.

Other communities that have seen relatively little impact so far are on track to pass a temperature threshold that would suddenly speed up snow loss, new research published in the journal Nature shows. They compared real-world observations to climate model simulations of a world with and without humans’ historical fossil fuel emissions. “We were able to identify a really clear fingerprint of anthropogenic emissions,” says Alex Gottlieb, first author of the new study and a PhD student at Dartmouth.

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