Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy

Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy

For much of the 20th century, winter brought an annual ritual to Princeton, New Jersey. Lake Carnegie froze solid, and skaters flocked to its glossy surface. These days, the ice is rarely thick enough to support anybody wearing skates, since Princeton’s winters have warmed about 4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1970. It’s a lost tradition that Grace Liu linked to the warming climate as an undergrad at Princeton University in 2020, interviewing longtim…

Warming Shifts Snowmelt Floods Earlier and Later

In an era where climate change continues to reshape ecosystems and weather patterns at unprecedented rates, a recent study published in Nature Communications unveils a paradoxical trend in snowmelt-driven floods that challenges conventional understanding. Recent research spearheaded by Guo, Yang, and colleagues offers compelling evidence that warming over the past 70 years has simultaneously caused snowmelt floods to occur both earlier and later…