Fresh snow can look like a blank sheet of paper, so bright it almost hurts to stare at in midday sun. Yet at the microscopic level, those flakes are not white at all, and the color we think we see is ...

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. When viewers tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will see pristine, white slopes, groomed tracks and athletes racing over snow-covered ...

It started snowing in the WNEP Backyard just after 4 a.m. Sunday morning, and we had no problem picking up the first few inches as the morning went on. That's because the snow started out very, very ...

The Church Sampler was invented by James Church, often known as the father of snow science. Church was a classics professor in Reno, Nev., in the early 1900s and when he wasn’t teaching Latin or old ...

Amid the West’s worst snow drought in modern history, several ski areas are attempting a novel approach: Storing up artificial snow and preserving it until next ski season. Subscribe to read this ...

A blizzard that brought more than 15 inches of snow to New York City has shuttered schools and stymied travel across New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. So what to ...

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan, Italy, was a slushy affair. And the Paralympics, which start March 6, may be more of the same. From ice rinks to ski slopes, conditions were warmer and wetter ...