Even as some places deal with unexpected cold, winter is shrinking across the globe as a result of human-driven climate change, according to a study published last month in Nature. The planet is rapidly losing its snowpack, and the declines are the most significant in the southwestern and northeastern United States.
I'm alarmed, not only for myself, but because I know that in cold places, so much-tourism economies, water supplies-depends on snow. Much hotter, drier months will upend these ways of life, and when I take it all in, I feel a hazy, hard-to-grasp grief.
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