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Death toll rises to at least 100 after Pakistan snow, avalanches
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
The death toll from days of bad weather now stands at 76 in Kashmir, and at least 100 across the country, according to a statement from the National Disaster Ma...
More than 110 dead as severe weather hits Pakistan, Afghanistan
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
At least 75 people died and 64 were injured across Pakistan, with several still missing, while a further 39 people were killed in Afghanistan, according to offi...
Oh, snow! Warm winter woes for famed Japan festival
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
The festival, which opens in three weeks in the capital of Hokkaido in northern Japan, is a major draw for the region, attracting more than 2.7 million visitors...
US man shoots kids throwing snowballs at cars
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
The children -- a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year old boy -- suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds, the Milwaukee Police said in a statement. They were pa...
Bad weather strands 1,000 tourists in French Alps
Jan 05, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy fog covered the ski slopes around Chambery on Saturday, leading to the cancellation of seven flights out of the local airport and delays of several others...
Snowmageddon warnings in North America come from tropics more than Arctic stratosphere
Dec 29, 2019 (SPX)
A team led by the University of Reading conducted the first ever study to identify how the four main winter weather patterns in North America behave depending o...
NASA airborne campaign catches the drift of snow water
Dec 24, 2019 (SPX)
Snow is a vital source of water for drinking, agriculture and electrical power in the western United States and other locations around the world. To know how mu...
Snow business: The icemen behind China's frozen festival
Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)
Liu and his team are among more than 100 people who work on the Songhua River to harvest the 170,000 cubic metres of ice bricks needed this year -- enough to fi...
Storms snarl Thanksgiving travel in US
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
On one of the country's busiest travel days of the year with an estimated 55 million people planning to drive or fly, highways in the West and Midwest were clos...
Mongolia's melting ice reveals clues to history of reindeer herding, threatens way of life
Nov 21, 2019 (SPX)
While there is reason to suspect that reindeer herding and utilization of the area's rich wildlife resources played an important role in the region's history an...
Man dies in landslide as Austria hit by heavy rain and snow
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The retiree was behind his house in Carinthia state when part of the hill above it slid off, killing the 79-year-old, police said. Earlier Monday, two women wer...
Heavy snow snarls traffic, shuts schools in Iran capital
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
Crews of municipal workers were battling to clear roads and pavements in parts of the capital, where snow began falling at the start of the morning rush hour an...
Heavy snow leaves one dead, 300,000 homes without power in France
Nov 15, 2019 (AFP)
A 63-year-old man was killed Thursday evening in the Isere department after a snow-laden tree fell on him while he was trying to clear away another downed tree,...
KU Leuven researchers use satellite data to calculate snow depth in mountain ranges
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
"In Western Europe, we tend to associate snow with ski trips, outdoor fun, or traffic jams, which goes to show that the importance of snow is often underestimat...
Last year's extreme snowfall wiped out breeding of Arctic animals and plants
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
The Arctic is home to a diverse and specialized group of organisms, highly adapted to life under the severe climatic conditions. But now the Arctic is changing,...
Snowkyo 2020: Tokyo organisers to test fake snow to cool Olympics
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
Organisers confirmed Thursday that they plan to test the use of artificial snow at a canoe event later this month as they look for novel ways to keep spectators...
Tokyo to test artificial snow to cool Olympic spectators
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
Organisers confirmed Thursday that they plan to test the use of artificial snow at a canoe event later this month as they look for novel ways to keep spectators...
Climate change forces Chile ski stations to make fake snow
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
Just a few decades ago, the Andes mountain range could be buried under four meters of snow, forcing the closure of access roads and requiring the use of tractor...
Ravers get hypothermia at snow-hit French techno festival
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
Around 10,000 people attended the unauthorised Teknival 2019 festival in the central Creuse region at the weekend, where temperatures dropped to -3 degrees Cels...
Four Germans die in Swiss avalanche
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
The accident took place on Friday in the village of Fieschertal, but bad weather prevented rescue services from finding the victim's bodies before Saturday, pol...
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