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In a new study in Environmental Research Letters, a team of hydrologists that includes University of Utah professor Paul Brooks answers that question by simulating isolated climate change effects on Rocky Mountain stream systems, varying the type of...
On a bright and unseasonably warm March day, Auden Schendler, Aspen Skiing Company’s vice president of sustainability, and I trudge up the boot path to Highland Peak. Once we reach the 12,392-foot summit, we click into our bindings and ski down Highland Bowl, a 40-plus-degree pitch...
The snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada mountains has reached its lowest point in the past 500 years — primarily the result of the region's dry winter, researchers report.
And the researchers don't expect normal snowpack levels to be replenished anytime soon. "We should be...
According to a recent study by the United States Geological Survey, it has unveiled that climate change will terribly affect southwestern Wyoming.
If this happens, it will make Wyoming quite vulnerable to wildfires and affect plant and animal life in the region. The scientists...