Yahoo: Global warming threatens to shorten ski season and reduce snow cover in Alps: study

Feb. 20, 2017

If left unchecked, climate change will shorten ski seasons and dramatically reduce snow cover in the Swiss Alps, scientists warn in a new paper which found that the region experienced the driest December since record-keeping began more than 150 years ago. 

The prognosis is grim: The Alps cold lose as much as 70 percent of its snow cover by the end of this century if climate change is not curbed, warn scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne and the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in a recently published paper. 

Likewise, their research also shows that the Alpine winter season -- defined as the period when the snow is deep enough for winter sports -- is poised to shorten dramatically. 

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