There’s pink snow in the Alps that looks stunning, but it’s a very bad sign

[Mike Wehner]

• Pink snow is appearing in the Italian Alps, offering clues as to mankind's impacts on the planet's climate.
• The snow changes color due to algae blooms which absorb even more heat and then melt more snow.
• It's a slippery slope, and mankind's gradual warming of the planet may already be triggering unstoppable changes.

Snow is supposed to be white. When snow is anything other than white it can reveal important things about what is happening around it. When snow is yellow you know that animals are nearby, for example. When it's dark gray it's probably been sitting on the side of a busy highway, absorbing all the nasty car exhaust as people go about their days. When snow is pink, however, it means that we're all failing the planet in our own unique ways.

Right now, there's a lot of snow in the Italian Alps that has taken on a pale shade of pink. It sounds lovely, doesn't it? Pink snow? But the truth is that pink snow is just another symptom of a planet that is getting too hot, too fast.

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