Q&A with hydrologist Adrienne Marshall on why this past winter’s snowpack fell so low, how global warming increased the odds and what the future may hold

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BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

Scientific Reports - Snow droughts, deluge, and reservation systems interact to drive recreation access at Yosemite National Park

Preferential flow (PF) is ubiquitous across the USA and occurs in up to 60% of all rainfall events ≥2 mm Rainfall intensity, soil texture, and antecedent soil moisture emerge as critical in gener...

Snow is melting faster in Western US forests scorched by wildfire, threatening drinking water supplies as climate change grips the region, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Scie...

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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

Lake bathymetry plays a critical role in determining lake surface water temperature in numerical weather models Changing bathymetry in the 1-D lake model of an operational weather model had stron...

Fierce winds and months of drought set the conditions for the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, but the growth of housing in fire-prone areas also played a major role.

By the end of the century, the eastern and southern US may never see deep snow cover the ground, with consequences for water storage as well as for the life on and beneath the snow

Hydropower is a major source of renewable energy in the Western United States a...

In the Western United States, climate variability significantly impacts water r...

Wildfires influence snow accumulation and ablation by altering the energy balan...

Wildfires can alter the energy balance of snow by clearing the canopy and shedd...

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