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Tromsø Norway aerial

Norway’s vanishing winter

Climate Change

Scandinavia is nearly synonymous with cold and snow, but a recent study from Norway shows that’s beginning to change.

rucks transporting snow are seen on their way to a snow melting plant

Here’s what more than a month’s worth of snow in Moscow looks like

Environment
People watch festive decorations depicting the Moscow Kremlin for the New Year and Christmas season at Kievsky Railway Station in Moscow, Russia December 28, 2017.

As the US freezes, Russia’s still waiting for winter to start

Environment
Tokyo November snow

Tokyo gets November snow for the first time in 54 years

Lifestyle
A woman takes photographs as snow is seen at the background on the Yangmungshan National Park during a snowfall in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan experienced a sudden drop in temperature over the weekend.

A historic cold front has Taiwanese freezing inside their homes

Environment
NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory flies above the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.

How California is surviving its new water crisis

Environment

With California entering its fourth year of drought, one of the state’s water managers has devised an innovative way to deal with what experts are calling the “new normal.”

Scott Pattee, a water supply specialist with the National Resources Conservation Service, checks snow levels at Stevens Pass ski resort in Washington's Cascade Mountains.

Record-low snowpack in Pacific Northwest could be ‘dress rehearsal’ for climate change

Environment

Low levels of snow melt in California and the Pacific Northwest could be harbinger of things to come, but one expert says the silver lining is that it gives officials a way to examine and prepare for global warming.

Snow in Boston

What are your 50 words for snow?

Environment

Much of the US has been pummeled with snow. So we’re injecting a bit of fun into the miserable winter of 2015. We’re asking listeners to describe snow in 50 words or less.

"Spring is coming" — A pedestrian walks past a pile of snow in Boston.

How is the world getting both a) warmer and b) snowier in some places? Here’s how.

Environment

Global temperatures are going up but that doesn’t necessarily mean less snow. Here’s a brief explainer of what seems like a contradiction.

Norwegian resident Gunnar Farsund stands in front of the clear doorway of his house due to mild weather in the far northern city of Tromsoe January 9, 1998, in contrast with the same time last year (R) when he and the town were besieged with 143 centimete

Norwegian town has message for John Kerry: Shovel your sidewalk

Lifestyle

Unlike the residents of Tromso, Norway, the US Secretary of State didn’t immediately shovel sidewalks at his Boston home after a snowstorm. The residents of the “Capital of the Arctic” say they’d never let it slip. Why? Lutheran guilt, for one.