http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. By midcentury, snowfall on Los Angeles–area mountains will be 30 to 40 percent less than it was at the end of the 20th century, according to a UCLA study released today and led by UCLA climate expert Alex Hall. http://phys.org/news290434471.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:14:41 EST news290434471 (Phys.org) —Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world's tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. The scientists have also been studying temperature and precipitation trends in the area and found that the Everest region has been warming while snowfall has been declining since the early 1990s. http://phys.org/news287744466.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 May 2013 10:01:39 EST news287744466 (AP)—Is it Easter or Christmas? Many Europeans would be forgiven for being confused by winter's icy grip on lands that should be thawing in springtime temperatures by now. http://phys.org/news283776657.html Space & Earth Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:51:08 EST news283776657 Levels of carbon dioxide rose hand-in-hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study Thursday that deals a blow to climate skeptics. http://phys.org/news281286765.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:13:52 EST news281286765 A new climate model predicts an increase in snowfall for the Earth's polar regions and highest altitudes, but an overall drop in snowfall for the globe, as carbon dioxide levels rise over the next century. http://phys.org/news280765169.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:19:36 EST news280765169 Last week's Nor'easter will go down in the record books as a once-in-a-lifetime event for residents across much of central New England, with record snowfall at locations from southern Connecticut to eastern Maine, says Michael Rawlins, manager of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. http://phys.org/news279880101.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:00:04 EST news279880101 A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past climate and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years. http://phys.org/news279292499.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:15:11 EST news279292499 Stronger snowfall increases future ice discharge from Antarctica. Global warming leads to more precipitation as warmer air holds more moisture – hence earlier research suggested the Antarctic ice sheet might grow under climate change. Now a study published in Nature shows that a lot of the ice gain due to increased snowfall is countered by an acceleration of ice-flow to the ocean. Thus Antarctica's contribution to global sea-level rise is probably greater than hitherto estimated, the team of authors from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) concludes. http://phys.org/news274534586.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:24 EST news274534586 (Phys.org)—Princeton geoscientists Christopher Harig and Frederik Simons have been applying new methods to study the amount of ice melt in the Greenland ice sheet. They report in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the rate is approximately 200 billion tons annually and is rising at a rate of approximately 9 billion tons per year. http://phys.org/news272613546.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:30:01 EST news272613546 (Phys.org)—Come rain or shine, or even snow, some glaciers of the Himalayas will continue shrinking for many years to come. http://phys.org/news272271386.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:30:01 EST news272271386 Researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have uncovered the mystery behind the rapid sea level rise in the past by using climate and ice sheet models. Funded in part by a Marie Curie Action grant under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the results showed that the process, called 'saddle collapse', generated two rapid sea level rise events: the Meltwater pulse 1a (MWP1a), some 14,600 years ago, and the '8,200 year' events. The results were published in the journal Nature. http://phys.org/news267345212.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:50:05 EST news267345212 (Phys.org)—After being virtually wiped out during a flood in 2005 in Wolf Point Creek, Alaska, salmon, meiofauna and most macroinvertebrates all re-colonized within two years, according to research published by University of Birmingham environmental scientists in the journal Nature Climate Change today. http://phys.org/news265877142.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:46:20 EST news265877142 The cause of rapid sea level rise in the past has been found by scientists at the University of Bristol using climate and ice sheet models. http://phys.org/news261223018.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:00:04 EST news261223018 Increased snowfall in Antarctica could offset the future impact of global warming on the continent, according to research carried out by a French team comprising researchers from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement and the Takuvik International Joint Unit. The research reveals the existence of a hitherto underestimated negative feedback mechanism acting on temperatures. Using satellite images and numerical modeling, the researchers showed that rising temperatures in Antarctica will lead to increased precipitation and, therefore, to a 'whiter' snow that will reduce the impact of climate change at the heart of the continent. The study, published in the 1 July 2012 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, should help to take better account of snow in models used to predict global climate change. http://phys.org/news261126432.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:07:26 EST news261126432 Every summer, Himalayan villages empty as locals rush to the mountains of northern Nepal to harvest yarchagumba, a high-altitude wild fungus that is prized for its aphrodisiac qualities. http://phys.org/news258525542.html Biology Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:39:35 EST news258525542 For the first time in four years, no area of the country faces a high risk of major to record spring flooding, largely due to the limited winter snowfall, according to NOAA’s annual Spring Outlook, which forecasts the potential for flooding from April to June.  http://phys.org/news251108293.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:18:28 EST news251108293 A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere. The study's findings could be used to improve seasonal forecasting of snow and temperature anomalies across northern continents. http://phys.org/news249565631.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:15 EST news249565631 In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence off of major roads. Hundreds of thousands of Washington metropolitan residents grappled with the loss of electricity and heat for almost a week. http://phys.org/news248024962.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:49:34 EST news248024962 Winter seems to be on hold this year in some parts of the United States. Snowfall has been scarce so far in places that were overwhelmed with the white stuff by the same time last year. http://phys.org/news246093282.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:30:01 EST news246093282 Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and consume plants, according to a groundbreaking study in Nature Climate Change. http://phys.org/news245420380.html Biology Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:19:50 EST news245420380 If the strong Swiss franc fails to keep holidaymakers away from Switzerland's luxury resorts, then the current lack of snow certainly will. http://phys.org/news241713114.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:32:00 EST news241713114 (PhysOrg.com) -- A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the region on October 30 after the snow was ending in New England and captured the ghostly blanket of white. http://phys.org/news239356704.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:58:31 EST news239356704 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades of assumptions regarding the wide, flat Hesperia Planum are not holding up very well under renewed scrutiny with higher-resolution, more recent spacecraft data. http://phys.org/news237631740.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:49:11 EST news237631740 A massive part of a glacier the size of 12 football fields in the Swiss Alps could break off, local authorities warned, after the discovery of an enormous crevasse in the glacier. http://phys.org/news236934063.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:01:15 EST news236934063 Rising air temperatures in the Arctic region have led to an increase in rainfall and a decrease in snowfall, making the sea ice more susceptible to melting, a new study has revealed. http://phys.org/news228987410.html Space & Earth Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:38:25 EST news228987410 (PhysOrg.com) -- Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why? http://phys.org/news228484452.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:55:11 EST news228484452 Heavy and prolonged snowfall can bring about unexpected conditions that encourage fungal growth, leading to the death of plants in the Arctic, according to experts. http://phys.org/news227706968.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:00:01 EST news227706968 Iceland saw its first May snowfall for almost a decade over the weekend, with more than 16 centimetres falling on the capital Reykjavik, meteorologists said Sunday. http://phys.org/news223530053.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 May 2011 04:41:10 EST news223530053 (AP) -- January was colder than normal for the United States and, in a finding that will surprise many, also drier than usual. http://phys.org/news216388337.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:20:01 EST news216388337 The roads are a skating rink where I live! This visible image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite on January 31, 2011 and it shows the low pressure area bringing snowfall to the Midwest US. Heavy snow is expected today in portions of northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snowfall from the system extends from Michigan west to Montana, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. A mix of rain and snow also stretches into the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and it is all moving east. This system appears to be as large as 1/3rd of the Continental U.S. http://phys.org/news215778441.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:48:00 EST news215778441