Author: Josep Bonsoms, Postdoctoral researcher and professor, Universitat de Barcelona

Snow is a defining feature of mountain ranges, and of winter itself for much of the world. But beyond its scenic value, snow plays a vital role in mountain ecosystems, as well as a range of human socioeconomic activity, and it is one of the climatic elements most sensitive to global warming. In recent decades, […]

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took weeks or months occur over just a few days. These increasingly frequent events are altering the normal dynamics of ice loss. They are profoundly changing […]