Washington: A new study had claimed that the thick snow on Arctic Sea ice has significantly lost its depth. Scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for almost a century. Now, research led by the University of Washington and NASA confirms that snow, particularly on sea ice in western waters near Alaska in Arctic, has drastically thinned. A new study combines data collected […]

A new study finds that if temperatures rise and more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, it will reduce the total amount of water in rivers It is a surprising observation. One might expect the timing of water flow to change but not the overall volume. But this is precisely what scientists discovered when they examined the histories of 420 catchment basins in the US spanning the period 1948-2001. […]