Shrinking snowfall on Greeces mountains is provoking anxiety, altering the economy
News Source : Abcnews.com
News Summary
- In Arachova, a Greek village reliant on snowmelt, water scarcity is becoming a concern.
- Mayor Giannis Stathas says snowfall on Mount Parnassos at an altitude of 2,400 meters (7,874 feet) is what once fell at 300 meters (984 feet) New findings from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute confirm mayor's observations.
- Researchers reconstructed 40 years of NASA and European Space Agency satellite imagery to estimate missing snow cover data.
ARACHOVA, Greece As a child, Giannis Stathas remembers being snowed in for days at a time in Arachova, a village famous for its ski resort and long known as a winter playground for Greeks.
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