White Out: Global Warming Is Melting Japan’s Snow Monsters


“Snow Monsters” – silent, twisted, mountain forests of stately conifers draped in frosty rime ice each Japanese winter – are under threat from global warming. This eerily silent, exquisitely beautiful, bizarre landscape results from a unique set of climactic conditions whose balance appears to be shifting, causing the majestic “monsters” to retreat farther up into…

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