Eurasian autumn snow has been widely regarded as a source of East Asian winter predictability, yet its influence is strongly non-stationary. Here we show that this non-stationarity reflects a ...

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 ...

On a cold winter day, it's easy to think of the landscape as frozen, silent, and asleep. Snow covers our fields and forests, trails crunch underfoot, and most signs of life seem to disappear. But just ...

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 ...

Snow algae are microalgal communities that colonise seasonal and perennial snowpacks across polar and alpine regions, where they drive key biogeochemical processes and influence the physical ...

“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 ...

When it comes to global warming trends, the Arctic is a troubling outlier. The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, and aerosols play an important role in that warming.

You might notice something unusual on the ground after a winter storm, white shapes that look like logs, Swiss rolls, or rolled-up carpets. These are called snow rollers, and they’re essentially ...

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 ...