Weather is more than just a colorful chart on your television screen or crossing your fingers for a snow day. Winter comes with temperature drops, bird migration, and bundling up. Here, winter also ...

The subnivean zone provides a winter refuge for mice and other small animals. Submitted photo On a cold winter day, it’s easy to think of the landscape as frozen, silent, and asleep. Snow covers our ...

Snow cover is a critical component of the Earth system, influencing regional hydrology, surface energy balance and ecosystem functioning. Changes in the timing, duration and spatial extent of snow ...

“In winter, things are down to their essence and their bare bones,” said David Lamon, the manager of the Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden, Maine. For those in Northern climates, the outdoors in ...

Ever seen a waterfall freeze mid-roar? Welcome to where Manitoba’s wild heart beats under a blanket of snow. You can almost hear the rush beneath the ice. That little footbridge below feels like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country. As Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido boasts pristine wilderness, home to endangered Steller's sea eagle, brown ...

A snow leopard undergoes adaptation training at the Ningxia Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in Ningxia Hui autonomous ...