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Climate change is shrinking winter snowpack, which harms Northeast forests year-round

  • Written by Andrew Reinmann, Assistant Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Snowpack protects tree roots and soil from harmful freeze/thaw cycles.Rebecca Siegel, CC BY

Climate change often conjures up images of heat, drought and hurricanes. But according to the latest U.S. National Climate Assessment, released on Nov. 23, 2018, winters have warmed three times faster than summers in the Northeast in recent years. These...

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