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Declining snowpacks may cut many nations' water
2015-11-12 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Gradual melting of winter snow helps feed water to farms, cities and ecosystems across much of the world, but this resource may soon be critically imperiled. In a new study, scientists have identified snow-dependent drainage basins across the northern hemisphere currently serving 2 billion people that run the risk of declining supplies in the coming century. The basins take in large parts of the American West, southern Europe, the Mideast and central Asia. They range from productive U.S. farm land...
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