If water were currency, glaciers and snowpack would be savings accounts. Transcript of the Audio Podcast: Glaciers and snowpack are water in the bank… on this CurrentCast. Imagine water is currency. Rain is like having cash in your pocket, and it comes and goes. But snowpack is our banking equivalent of a checking account, accumulating …
Category Archive: Water & Climate Change
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Dec 31
Migrating Birds Miss the Water
California’s drought has dried up wetlands, putting migratory birds at risk. Transcript of the Audio Podcast: California’s drought takes a toll on migrating birds… on this CurrentCast. Each winter, the skies over California’s Central Valley fill with birds. Frisk: “Northern pintail, mallards, gadwall, pacific whitefront geese, Ross’s geese, snow geese. Also sandhill cranes and tundra …
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