The warm winter has left very little snow in California’s Sierra Nevada, and now an extreme heat wave is accelerating the rapid melt in the mountains. The Sierra snowpack measures 48% of average for ...

The Arapahoe Basin Ski Area is proposing new changes related to snowmaking, parking and avalanche mitigation that, the resort ...

On April 1, 2026, surveyors from the California Department of Water Resources hiked to Phillips Station near Lake Tahoe for the state’s most closely watched snow measurement of the year. They found ...

Robot lawn mowers are pricey, but they take all the effort out of perfect lawn care.

Alpine snow dynamics encompass the accumulation, persistence and melt of seasonal snowpacks that regulate mountain hydrology, ecology and socio-economic activities. Climatic warming has led to rising ...