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Snow Across the Northern Hemisphere Will Get Whiter, Study Says
Our quickly warming world is losing many signs of winter—once snowy mountain tops aren’t as frosty tipped, glaciers are disappearing, and sea ice at the poles is melting at alarming rates. But new research outlines a small reason for optimism. Scientists project that even though climate change will make the world hotter, snow may actually…
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California’s Epic Snowstorms Are Great News
A series of winter storms in California over the Christmas weekend dumped snow all over the Sierra Nevada mountains. This is good water news for the upcoming year following a bone-dry summer that set several worrying new records for water scarcity.
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California’s Fire Season From Hell Followed by Rainy Season From Hell
The new normal for California is no normal.
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What It’s Like To Get Caught In An Avalanche
Video: Snowboarder Tom Oye was snowboarding in Whistler, Canada when he got caught in a pummelling avalanche, and it’s beyond terrifying. In this video we get to see the entire harrowing slide down the mountain. One second he’s getting ready to carve the slopes, and the next he feels the ground crack underneath him and…