Italian rescue teams say eight people have been found alive in a hotel buried by an avalanche nearly two days ago in the central part of the country. The survivors have yet to be pulled from the snow, but rescuers have been talking with them Friday. Workers dug through the night through deep snow and […]
Boulder, Colo.–Unusually high air temperatures and a warm ocean have led to a record low Arctic sea ice extent for November, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). In the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic sea ice extent also hit a record low for the month, caused by moderately warm temperatures […]
Two accidents occurred within minutes of each other in Kodiak on Monday, and troopers pointed to rapidly freezing snow as the cause of both accidents. Troopers were contacted at 6:15 pm by 27-year-old Aaron Owen, who reported that he had rolled his vehicle at mile 12.5 of the Chiniak Highway as he was traveling northbound, […]
This morning, through the west window, I noticed a flash of white. I looked up from breakfast to see a short-tailed weasel popping from a hole in the snowpack. He was sleek and streamlined and snow-white, except for where his tail looked like he dipped it in black paint. Later, a leggy snowshoe hare bounded […]