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Published online 18 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.898
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Alpine snow taken down a notch
Swiss winter resorts suffered abrupt decline in snow in the late 1980s.
Europe is losing its snow, and Alpine resorts that depend on winter tourism are very worried. A new study shows that the snow shortage in the Swiss Alps has not come about gradually, but began quite suddenly at the end of the 1980s.
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