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Dec 22, 2022 (ESA)

The balloon in question was launched to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere and is part of ESA's preparatory work for the new Cop...

Wicked winter storm threatens US holiday travel chaos

Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that the storm would produce "a multitude of weather hazards," including blizzards and life-threatening wind chill, ac...

Record-breaking snowfall blankets Moscow

Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)

In parts of Moscow, snow piled into mounds over 30 centimetres (12 inches) high, something not usually observed until the end of winter in February, the Fobos w...

The real benefits of walking in a winter wonderland

Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)

Previous studies have found that green spaces, such as parks and forests, and 'blue environments', such as being at the coast or close to a river, can improve b...

A warmer Arctic Ocean leads to more snowfall further south

Nov 25, 2022 (SPX)

Rising air temperatures due to global warming melt glaciers and polar ice caps. Seemingly paradoxically, snow cover in some areas in northern Eurasia has increa...

French Alps village says goodbye to ski lift of winters past

Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)

Wearing hard hats and T-shirts in the bright autumn sunshine, volunteers recently gathered to pull down the pylons that had been rusting unused for the past 15 ...

Snow: Two weeks less on average in mountain areas than in 1982

Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)

"Unfortunately, there are no denials of these trends, only confirmations," explains Claudia Notarnicola, physicist, deputy director of Eurac Research's Institut...

Blizzard strands hundreds, prompts evacuations Andes mountains

Jul 10, 2022 (AFP)

On the Argentinian side, 120 people were rescued early in the day by police and military personnel, but another 200 remained stranded at an altitude of more tha...

Seen from space, the snow-capped Alps are going green

Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)

The research, published in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite imagery across the entirety of the iconic European mountain range. "We were very surprise...

Method used to track ants underground could revolutionize how we measure snow depth from space

May 19, 2022 (SPX)

One member of the team is Yongxiang Hu from NASA's Langley Research Center who drew inspiration from physics and biology to create a unique snow depth model. A ...

Climate change will force big shift in timing, amount of snowmelt across Colorado River Basin

May 19, 2022 (SPX)

"Because of global climate change, areas of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could have much less water, and future hydrologic conditions may more closely resemble th...

NASA scientist discovers new means to measure snow depth from space

Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)

Using a concept adapted from the mathematics and biology communities, Yongxiang Hu of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, developed a method to...

'Rare' springtime blizzard wallops parts of Canada

Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)

Whiteouts were also reported in the US states of North Dakota and Montana. Natalie Hasell, a meteorologist at Environment Canada, told AFP it was "rare" to see ...

Over 200 flights cancelled in Istanbul because of snow

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

Turkey's national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, said on Wednesday that it had cancelled 185 flights at Istanbul airport on Thursday, 114 of them domestic and ...

Snow-washed Greece

Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)

He posted to social media, noting, "In keeping with its national colours, wintry Greece presented itself in blue and white." Storm Elpida swept across Greece an...

Seven Indian soldiers killed in Himalayan avalanche

Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)

The troops were part of a larger deployment in Arunachal Pradesh state and were caught at an altitude of 4,400 metres (14,500 feet) in an area that had seen hea...

Almost 20 killed in avalanche on Afghan-Pakistan border

Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)

Scores of Afghans cross illegally to Pakistan every day through the porous mountain border in search of jobs or to buy essential goods for trade. Najibullah Has...

Nine dead as a hundred avalanches hit Austria

Feb 06, 2022 (AFP)

Most of the avalanches hit the western Tyrol region and Friday alone saw five fatalities, rescue services said. Police said that one incident had claimed the li...

Weather at Beijing Olympics should be better than Pyeongchang

Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)

Pyeongchang 2018 was bedevilled by sweeping high winds of up to 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour which forced delays to alpine skiing and snowboarding events. M...

New Delhi's homeless shiver through harsh cold snap

Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)

The sprawling megacity's 20 million inhabitants are accustomed to year-round weather extremes, from blistering summer heat to torrential downpours and thick, to...