Scientists studied 30 Sierra Nevada ponds that can swing 20°C in a day. Shrinking snowpack may make them smaller, warmer and more nutrient-rich

Mountain ponds in California's Sierra Nevada show significant daily temperature changes. Winter snowpack profoundly ...

As snowpack shrinks, Sierra Nevada mountain ponds undergo dramatic change

On a summer afternoon in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain pond can look calm and still, reflecting granite peaks and alpine sky.
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Sierra snowpack declining 1% per day — heat wave could expedite that

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (FOX40.COM) — The Sierra Nevada has been rapidly losing its snowpack, and the potentially record-breaking mid-March heat wave ...
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Sierra Nevada snowpack just 18% of normal — second-lowest in recorded history

Obliterated by record hot temperatures in March, the statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of one-third of California’s water supply, stood at only 18% of its historical average on Wednesday, ...
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California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack at 500-year low

The Los Angeles Times reminded readers on Monday that when Governor Jerry Brown ordered water restrictions on April 1, this year, he was standing in a Sierra Nevada meadow that should have been ...