Finland exports snow-saving mats to ski resorts hit by climate crisis

Preserving previous year's snow for start of season can combat increasingly unpredictable winters Before the arrival of electric fridges and freezers, people across Finland would saw a block of ice from a river or lake before the spring thaw, thickly cover it in an insulating layer of sawdust and stack it in barns, pits or ice cellars to protect produce from the warm air of the summer months. Amid global heating and increasingly unpredictable shorter winters, a modern twist on the traditional j�...