Snow rollers are rare because it requires very specific weather and ground conditions for nature to make its own snowballs.

During the cold and dark days of December, we will be able to look for animal tracks that tell us what they are doing as we ...

Antarctica holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth, with Russia’s Vostok Station plunging to −128 ...

Snow is nature’s winter insulation, and most of our plants are accustomed to at least some layer of snow protection before the coldest weather of winter arrives,” Don Kinzler writes ...

The snow this past weekend was a terrific introduction to winter. It has been so unseasonably warm recently I was afraid I hadn’t moved far enough north. The duality of snow is one of my favorite ...

Along with the holidays at this time of year, there is a tradition of a different type: the Christmas Bird Counts. Using Christmas only as the time when the counts are done, they are a look at what ...

This past weekend the landscape completely transformed - from rain-soaked and ice-covered bare earth to the clean slate of a fresh coat of snow. Snow on the ground, or the lack thereof, can have huge ...

The idea began in California's Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A clipper storm will bring plowable snow to New York City this weekend, according to AccuWeather. A ...

I moved a little bit inland, away from the Maine coast, because I got tired of the ocean’s moderating effect; we would have rain along the coast, but not so many miles inland there would be feet of ...