Climate News Network: Up to two billion people who depend on winter snow to deliver their summer water could see shortages by 2060 as upland and mountain snowpacks continue to dwindle.
An estimated 300 million people could find, 45 years on, that they simply wont have enough water for all their needs, according to new research.
Climate change driven by rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide-in turn, fed by human combustion of fossil fuels-may already be affecting global precipitation. Researchers have consistently...