WHITE OUT - AFRICA DAILY

Indian avalanche soldier 'critical' after six-day ordeal

Feb 09, 2016 (AFP)

An Indian soldier rescued nearly a week after he was buried by a deadly avalanche on the world's highest battleground was Tuesday being treated in Delhi in "ext...

Icy pavement peril keeps Muscovites at home

Jan 29, 2016 (AFP)

Muscovites were told to stay at home unless absolutely necessary Friday after a sudden thaw left the city streets coated in treacherous black ice. Pedestrians s...

Electrified concrete paves way for snow-melting streets

Jan 26, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at the University of Nebraska are testing a new type of concrete that could make clearing snow-covered streets a bit easier. The concrete is designe...

Asia shivers, slips and slides in record low temperatures

Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)

Snow, sleet and icy winds across Asia caused deaths, flight cancellations and chaos over the weekend as areas used to basking in balmier climates struggled with...

Washington and other US cities dig, and dig, after monster blizzard

Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)

The icy streets of the US capital remained largely deserted Monday on the first work day after a mammoth blizzard smothered the East Coast, with schools and the...

Americans begin digging out as historic blizzard winds down

Jan 24, 2016 (AFP)

A massive blizzard that claimed at least 16 lives in the eastern United States finally appeared to be winding down Sunday, giving snowbound residents the chance...

Storm-hit US digs out as death toll rises to 22

Jan 24, 2016 (AFP)

The eastern United States dug out Sunday from an historic blizzard that killed at least 22 people, but as New York slowly lumbered back to life in preparation f...

France to probe risks taken by soldiers in deadly avalanche

Jan 19, 2016 (AFP)

France's defence minister promised Tuesday to investigate whether five Foreign Legion troops killed in an avalanche took unnecessary risks, as an expert warned ...

The Science of Winter

Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)

Snow - that icon of winter - blankets the land with a beautiful silence. Love it or hate it, we all depend on snow. Our year-round water supply largely comes fr...

Two Italians killed in Swiss avalanche

Jan 09, 2016 (AFP)

Two Italians were killed Saturday after they and another cross-country skier were hit by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police said. Police in the southern Swi...

Warm winter melts Dutch skaters' hopes of legendary canal race

Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)

Winter is nearing the halfway mark in the Netherlands with record high temperatures, melting fervent Dutch skaters' hopes of gliding over frozen canals or takin...

Blizzard kills 15,000 cows in Texas

Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)

A freak blizzard killed at least 15,000 dairy cows in the US state of Texas and for almost two days kept farmers from milking some of those that survived, offic...

Sub-zero weather kills 21 in Poland over weekend

Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)

Twenty-one people died over the weekend in Poland because of freezing weather amid one of the country's deadliest cold spells, the government said Monday. "Twel...

Europe's winter warmth puts nature in tailspin

Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)

The daffodils are out in London, plum trees are blossoming in Milan and asparagus tips are pushing through the soil in eastern France. Across Europe, unseasonab...

Hundreds of flights grounded as snow blankets Istanbul

Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)

Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Thursday from Istanbul's two main airports after the city was hit by a picturesque but troublesome snowfall on the last da...

Season's first major snow storm hits eastern Canada

Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)

Snow blanketed eastern Canada Tuesday, sparking airport delays and trouble on the roads as the season's first major winter storm hit the region following an unu...

Biggest snow storm in decades hits north Mexico

Dec 28, 2015 (AFP)

Some roads remained closed in northern Mexico on Monday after the biggest snow storm in more than half a century blanketed parts of the region, authorities said...

Climate change: the Grinch that stole Europe's Christmas?

Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)

In a season traditionally associated with ice-skating, snowball fights and mulled wine in wintry Europe, birds are chirping, flowers blooming and fake snow cove...

Slalom course for ski areas facing future without snow

Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)

As temperatures rise there is less of it or sometimes even none at all -- global warming is forcing ski areas to think about the once unthinkable, a future with...

Declining snowpacks may cut many nations' water

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Gradual melting of winter snow helps feed water to farms, cities and ecosystems across much of the world, but this resource may soon be critically imperiled. In...