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Depth, Cold, Danger: What a 24-Year Satellite Study Just Revealed About Avalanches

Imagine a north-facing slope in mid-February. The snow is deep, the air bitterly cold, and every few minutes you hear the distant whump of a settling slab. A new 24-year satellite study of the Altai Mountains in East Kazakhstan confirms what those sounds already whisper to backcountry skiers: avalanche danger starts and ends with snow depth and temperature. In fact, […]

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Clay Malott | May 12, 2025
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Top 15 Worldwide Ski Resorts For Students

Argentina

Skiing not only boosts our overall happiness and well-being but is also beneficial for both our physical and mental health. Maintaining good mental and physical health is essential when we are studying, especially in a foreign country. Altitude Futures has released a brand new ranking, taking into account all the facts that make a study location perfect for skiing. Related: […]

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Study Reveals the High Vulnerability of European Ski Resorts to Global Warming

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A new European study has investigated the effects of climate change on European ski resorts and warns that global warming will leave 53% of Europeโ€™s ski resorts at very high risk for snow supply in the future. If temperatures increase by 1.5ยฐC, around a third (32%) of European ski resorts would be severely impacted. This proportion could be limited to […]

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Julia Schneemann | September 17, 2023
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Study Finds Avalanche Victims With Long Burial Times (โ‰ฅ60โ€‰Min) Have Only 19% Chance of Survival

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Surviving an avalanche burial is completely correlated with burial time. As a rule of thumb, the longer someone’s been buried the lower the chance of survival. A recent study has been published where researchers looked at all completely buried avalanche victims with a burial duration of โ‰ฅ60โ€‰min between 1997 and 2018 in Switzerland, and drew conclusions from the retrospective data.ย  […]

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AvyBrains | June 11, 2021
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Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Have Reached a Tipping Point That Sets It On an Irreversible Path

Greenland’s ice sheet may have reached a tipping point that sets it on an irreversible path. Nearly 40 years of Greenland satellite data showed that its glaciers have shrunk so much that even if global warming stopped today, the ice sheet would continue to shrink. Related: Study Finds Climate Change Has Stopped 6,500 Years of Global Cooling According to the […]

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Sebastian Opazo | August 21, 2020
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Specially Trained Dogs Could Detect Coronavirus

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Sebastian Opazo | July 30, 2020
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NOAA: Seeing Red Across The North Pacific Ocean

Written by Michelle L’Heureux on Climate.gov The Pacific Ocean is throwing a bit of a temper tantrum these days, but itโ€™s not where you think it might be.ย Often we focus on the tropical Pacific Ocean because itโ€™s where ENSO takes center stage, but currently, temperature departures across the Tropics are pretty blah.ย Instead, for the past few months, itโ€™s theย Northย Pacific Ocean […]

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WeatherBrains | October 25, 2019
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Denverโ€™s Traffic Congestion Is Only Getting Worse, Study Predicts

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The amount of time spent in Denver traffic jams is expected to double over the next 20 years, according to an annual report on roadway congestion from the Denver Regional Council of Governments. This is bad news for Denver-area skiers who frequently travel to ski resorts along the I-70 corridor, one of Colorado’s most driven highways and home to many […]

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