Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency ... the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain ...

Slab avalanches are the result of an intricate ... This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 11, 2008, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Joachim Heierli ...

Unlike Earth, where avalanches involve snow and rock ... In 2015, NASA’s HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera captured a jaw-dropping image of a 66-foot-wide chunk of ...

In winter, avalanches pose the biggest danger in the ... These satellite networks are intended to provide broadband coverage anywhere on Earth. In a feasibility study commissioned by ESA-ESTEC ...

The findings are published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The study focuses on the most common natural hazards in the ...

A Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster will be holding a free avalanche awareness talk at the Keystone Science ...