North American snowpack loss (IMAGE)
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Effects of human-driven climate change on spring snowpacks in North American watersheds per decade from 1981-2020 with river basins labeled. The Southwestern and Northeastern U.S. saw among the steepest declines in the hemisphere, with more than 10% of the spring snowpack lost per decade. These losses put millions of people in the American West at risk of a water crisis, while also threatening local economies in regions such as the Northeast that depend on winter recreation.
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Justin Mankin and Alex Gottlieb/Dartmouth
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