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By  HENRY FOUNTAIN APRIL 11, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Snow partially covered the Sierra Nevada in central California last week. Credit Henry Fountain/The New York Times YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Thanks in part to El Niño, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is greater than it has been in years. With the winter snowfall season winding down, California officials said that the pack peaked two weeks ago at 87 percent of the long-term average. That’s far better than last year, when it was just 5 percent of normal and Gov. Jerry Brown announced restrictions on water use after four years of severe drought. But the drought is still far from over, especially in Southern California, where El Niño did not bring many major storms. Despite the better news this year, there are plenty of worrying signs about the Sierra snowpack, which provides about 30 percent of the water Californians use after it melts...

APR 10, 2016 10:57 AM ET  //  BY  BRIAN KAHN, CLIMATE CENTRAL   VIEW RELATED GALLERY » Before 2000, Earth's spin axis was drifting toward Canada (left globe). Climate change-driven ice loss in Greenland, Antarctica and elsewhere is pulling the direction of drift eastward. NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY  GALLERY 10 Nasty Surprises from Climate Change VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   VIEW CAPTION   +   UP NEXT Surprising   Facts   About   The   Antarctic   Ice   Sheet ‹ › The spin of the earth is a constant in our lives. It’s quite literally why night follows d...

Scientists repeat warnings global climate system is being strongly influenced by greenhouse gas emissions Steve Connor  Science Editor  @SteveAConnor   Monday 14 March 2016 85 comments 491 The unseasonably warm weather across the UK had seen Daffodils blooming in December  Getty A dramatic surge in the Earth’s surface temperatures took place in February which saw the biggest month-on-month rise in global warming on record, latest figures released by Nasa show. As global temperatures rise well above their seasonal averages, especially in the northern hemisphere, the sea ice in the Arctic continues its overall downward trajectory with a new record monthly low for a February. While some of the temperature rise has been put down to the large El Nino event currently coming to an end in the Pacific Ocean, scientists repeated their warnings that the global climate system is now being strongly influenced...