Less snow and a shorter ski season in the Alps (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
(WorldNews Switzerland)

(Source: EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 16.02.17- After long-awaited snowfall in January, parts of the Alps are now covered with fresh powder and happy skiers. But the Swiss side of the iconic mountain range had the driest December since record-keeping began over 150 years ago, and 2016 was the third year in a row with scarce snow over the Christmas period. A study published today in The Cryosphere, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, shows bare Alpine slopes could be a much more common sight in the future. The new research, by scientists based at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) and at the CRYOS Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in...