Climate change forces Chile ski stations to make fake snow
BY PAULINA ABRAMOVICH (AFP) 3 HOURS AGO
Once deep in powder this time of year, Chile's ski stations are fighting the ravages of climate change and pollution that have brought less and less snow to the central Andes.
Just a few decades ago, the Andes mountain range could be buried under four meters of snow, forcing the closure of access roads and requiring the use of tractors to get around.
But this year, it's snowed only three times in the Chilean Andes, and never more than 30 centimeters.
It's not just Chile affected, but the whole of the Andes where the area of snow cover in the central zone has diminished by five to 10 percent each decade, according to Raul Cordero, an academic at the University of Santiago.
More:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/climate-change-forces-chile-ski-stations-to-make-fake-snow/article/556001
This link takes you to a google image page where you can see many pictures of what skiing in Chile HAS been, and the environment they have seen as their country's winter sporting area:
https://tinyurl.com/y3dqnffq
