Watching skiers compete almost entirely on artificially made snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics, we found it hard not to think about climate change and what it will mean for the future of the winter sports industry—and who ...
Environment
Feb 18, 2022
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If you or I jump in the air as high as possible, we can stay off the ground for about half a second. Michael Jordan could stay aloft for almost one second. While there are many events at the Winter Olympics that feature athletes ...
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Feb 10, 2022
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As the longest United Nations climate talks on record end with a compromise in Madrid, new research from the University of Waterloo has found that higher emission reduction pledges consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement ...
Environment
Dec 19, 2019
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What happens to the land when a ski run is abandoned? Not much, if the run was previously graded, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
Environment
Dec 16, 2015
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As temperatures rise there is less of it or sometimes even none at all—global warming is forcing ski areas to think about the once unthinkable, a future without snow.
Environment
Dec 12, 2015
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