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Share In Canada's North, landscapes such as caribou habitat found in Yukon's Tombstone Territorial Park, seen here, are increasingly at risk of dramatic change as permafrost melts. Scientists are now researching what's known as the permafrost carbon feedback loop, in which melting permafrost releases greenhouse gases that further amplify climate change. Photo: Jimmy Thomson / The Narwhal In-Depth Fighting the feedback loop: why scientists are sounding the alarm on Canada’s melting permafrost Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies abov...

Mountains overlook ranch land near Leadville, Colorado. New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that snow is melting earlier – often in the winter. That’s a bad sign for the Mountain West.  Researchers took an unprecedented look at more than 1,000 snow measurement stations from New Mexico up through Canada and Alaska. They found that over the last 40 years, about a third of those stations recorded increasing winter melt.  Study lead Keith Musselman is a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. He says the study sug...

Dry winter left snowpacks at 79% of normal and some reservoirs way down. (Francisco Kjolseth | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The Colorado River flows into Lake Powell near Hite Marina on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Utah's largest reservoir is less than 40% full.   | April 7, 2021, 1:00 p.m. Coming out of another drier-than-usual winter, it is not looking good for Utah’s water supply — despite the latest spring storm — with snowpacks peaking last month at 79% of normal, according to a report released this week. The state’s snowpacks peaked March 27, about 10 days earlier than usual, wit...

1:10 Researchers took an unprecedented look at more than 1,000 snow measurement stations from New Mexico up through Canada and Alaska. They found that over the last 40 years, about a third of those stations recorded increasing winter melt.  Study lead Keith Musselman is a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. He says the study suggests that snowpacks are being affected by climate change, even if snowpack averages have been relatively stable over the last few decades. “In some cases it’s validation of our future projections that snow quali...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Combined photos of the Senator Beck basin in the Colorado San Juan mountains during increasingly warmer months. view more  Credit: Jeffrey Deems/CIRES and Matthew Kennedy/CU Boulder Extreme Ice Survey More snow is melting during winter across the West, a concerning trend that could impact everything from ski conditions to fire danger and agriculture, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder analysis of 40 years of data. Researchers found that since the late 1970s, winter's boundary with spring has been slowly disappearing, with one-third of 1,065 snow measur...