Declining winter snowpack across the western U.S. threatens the water supply of 70 million people


Writing in Science, a multidisciplinary team of researchers reports that the snowpack in the Yellowstone watershed, the northern Rocky Mountains, and the southern Rocky mountains, are all declining rapidly. They connect this with rising temperatures across the region stemming from human-caused climate change. If the decline continues, they say, it has serious implications for people, farmers, ranchers and industries across the western United States.

You can read more about this at:

http://www.suite101.com/content/unprecedented--rocky-mountain-snowpack-decline-threatens-millions-a379215

Or you can find the original article at: http://news.opb.org/media/uploads/pdf/2011/snowpackpaper%5B1%5D.pdf

Robert Adler
for the Institute