Warm river.

• Position: STATELINE - Global climate change - Brief Article

A significant decline in the number of days in which ice affected the flow of northern New England rivers provides more evidence that the region's winters are milder than they used to be. The U.S. Geological Survey studied 16 rivers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The total days of ice-affected flow in nine rivers decreased by 20 days from 1936 to 2000, with most of the decreases occurring since the 1960s. Although only four of the 16 rivers had significantly...