The Feeling of Losing Snow
A conversation with Zoë Schlanger on the sense of loss that comes when climate change transforms winter.
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Snow is an essential part of how people in cold climates experience the winter, and a key source of water in many parts of the world. But new research shows that the snowpack—snow that stays on the ground in cold weather—is disappearing at an alarming rate as temperatures rise. I chatted with my colleague Zoë Schlanger, who wrote about the new paper in The Atlantic this week, about how diminishing snow would change daily life.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
