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Results for keyword: snowpack

  • The gift of runoff in a wet season

    The gift of runoff in a wet season

    After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.

    by Allen Best, Jul 21, 2011
  • Bear witness to climate change

    Bear witness to climate change

    To imagine what your corner of the West will be like in a warmer climate, consider how different plants and animals are at a lower elevation.

    by Pepper Trail, Feb 04, 2010

  • The West’s wacky weather

    The West’s weather is full of surprises this spring, with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at the same time.

    by Jonathan Thompson, May 12, 2008

  • Where there's fire, there's global warming

    Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires

    by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006

  • Climate-change clues — in tropical glaciers

    In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical glaciers

    by John Krist, Jun 26, 2006

  • The wild, wild weather

    Whatever the cause, the weather in the West this last year has been wild and wacky

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jun 26, 2006

  • What happened to winter?

    An unusual winter sends ripples through the West's water and wildlife systems, and leaves scientists wondering whether global warming is the cause.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 18, 2005

  • Who'll stop the rain?

    January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to learn to live with drought

    by Paul Larmer, Jan 24, 2005
 

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