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00:00High in the Canadian Rockies, the snowpack is disappearing.

00:06So now that station runs mostly on wind power generation.

00:09A team of scientists is climbing one of its iconic peaks to figure out why.

00:14Right now we're climbing into the Fortress Mountain Research Area.

00:18And this has some of the deepest snow on the east side of the Canadian Rockies.

00:23And that snowpack is critical for the water supply.

00:26It drives the economy of a vast area of western North America.

00:31Every year, billions of tons of snow fall onto these mountaintops.

00:43In April, the snow begins to melt.

00:45And slowly over the course of the summer, trickles down and feeds the rivers that irrigate 700,000 hectares of farmland.

00:57The timing is crucial.

00:59If the melt comes too early, the ground may still be frozen.

01:04If it comes too late, the crops could dry out.

01:08Over half of humanity receives its critical water supplies from the high mountains.

01:13And the high mountains are incredibly threatened by global warming.

01:16We're losing these snowpacks. We're losing our mountain water security.

01:20And that means we're losing our food security.

01:23Oh, let's see how the transmission is doing.

01:28And it isn't just the snowpack that's being lost on this mountain range.

01:33This area has warmed much faster than lower elevations in Canada.

01:38And the higher up the mountains you go, the greater the warming.

01:41So, over there is a place where we had a glacier just a few decades ago.

01:46And so it's within living memory, this area has deglaciated.

01:50You can still see the rather curved rock through there.

01:53It has ice underneath it.

01:55And it is still melting away. It's providing water as it melts downstream.

01:59But it's an extinct glacier.

02:02So, it's still melting away.

02:04And it is still melting away. It's providing water as it melts downstream.

02:08But it's an extinct glacier. It's essentially finished.

02:12And so that's occurred within our lifetimes associated with the climate warming

02:17that's already occurred in the Canadian Rockies.

02:19And hundreds of glaciers like that have disappeared since the 1970s.

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