Climate change is causing the US to lose so much snowpack, a new study finds, that it could devastate water access and destroy winter-reliant industries.
Snowpack — or snow that stores water and releases it as it melts during the spring and summer — is an essential source of water for many regional systems, and fuels snow-based economics like skiing. Until now, researchers have struggled to definitively link the well-documented loss of snowpack in certain areas to human-driven climate change.
