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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein and Brittany Peterson

Climate change is shrinking snowpack in many places, study shows. And it will get worse

ASSOCIATED PRESS

River basins around the world that were once regularly snowbound are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a new study found.

“Many of the world’s most populous basins are hovering on the precipice of rapid snow declines,” concluded the study of snow amounts since 1981 in Wednesday's journal Nature.

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