
A white-tailed rabbit (Townsend’s Rabbit) in the snow
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Land cover days will decrease across much of the continental US due to climate change. If greenhouse gas emissions continue as usual, by the end of the century, days with deep snow are predicted to disappear almost everywhere except in high mountain regions.
Areas that were once covered in snow have already begun to transform. “We see places like New Hampshire turning into places like New Jersey, which is hard to swallow,” he says. to Elizabeth Burakows at the University of New Hampshire.