Journal of Ecology, Vol. 107, No. 4, Special feature: Macroevolutionary perspectives on biotic interactions (July 2019), pp. 1970-1981 (12 pages) 1. Changes from historic weather patterns have ...

April 20 (UPI) --Farmers across the western half of the United States rely on snowmelt to irrigate their crops, but new research suggests snowmelt will become increasingly unreliable as Earth's ...

Alpine areas are experiencing faster rates of warming due to climate change than lowland regions, and this warming leads to earlier snowmelt. Early snowmelt and warming temperatures pose threats to ...

Western communities are facing effects of a warming climate with slower and earlier snowmelt reducing streamflows and possibly the amount of water reaching reservoirs used for drinking water and ...

Earlier, slower snowmelt hinders a subalpine forest's ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduces streamflow, a phenomenon with potentially drastic consequences for agriculture, ...

In mountainous regions, warmer air temperatures have led to an earlier onset of spring snowmelt and lower snowmelt rates because snow melts at a slower rate earlier in the year when the net turbulent ...

Changes in growing season temperature and duration may have profound effects on the population dynamics of arctic and alpine plant species in snow-bed and fell-field habitats. We examined how a ...

The effects of a “snow drought” are still plaguing parts of the West, after a stretch of warm, dry weather last month accelerated the season’s snowmelt, federal meteorologists reported. While ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers are preparing to use the Isabella dam’s service spillway to release water for the first time since 1983 in order to handle expected water level rise from snowpack melt.

“We don’t expect a whole lot of rain. The nice thing is it’s a cool air mass as well, so that will temper some of the snowmelt as well,” Whitmore said. “Projections are brought down for the crests, ...

Snow at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains (California Department of Water Resources via Courthouse News) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — In what is expected to be one of the biggest ...