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Johannesburg marvels at rare snowfall
Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)
Snow flurries blew through South Africa on Tuesday, closing several border crossings with Lesotho and dusting parts of the country in white as residents poured ...
Climate change prompts French ski area to mull downsize
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
A modest ski area in the French Alps is ready to unbolt its chairlifts and rope off slopes as the local mayor concludes that climate change means the trails ahe...
Russian developer's resort gets go ahead in Swiss Alps
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
A Russian property developer has been given the green light to begin building a 650-million-franc mountain resort after Switzerland's highest court ended five y...
Nine dead after French Alps avalanche sweeps over climbers
Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)
An avalanche swept over a group of European climbers in the French Alps on Thursday, killing nine people on the slopes of a peak dubbed the "Cursed Mountain". A...
US pair lost in New Zealand blizzard for a week
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
Two US students survived a week lost in a blizzard-hit New Zealand mountain range by taking regular dips in hot thermal springs they had stumbled across, rescue...
Low Peru temperatures kill 94 children since January
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Nearly 100 children under the age of five died of pneumonia between January and April in Peru due to a cold wave that swept through the country's Andean region,...
Snow hits Bosnian capital
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
The Bosnian capital and its surroundings were covered by snow on Monday, the first time in half a century snow has settled in Sarajevo at this time of year, as ...
Late snow storm sucker-punches US northeast
Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)
Just as the US northeast was easing from a mild winter into a historically warm spring, a storm left thousands without power and prematurely leafy trees sagging...
Pakistan avalanche rescuers excavate new site
Apr 14, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistani troops began excavating a new site in their search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude army camp despite a fresh slide in the are...
More foreign teams to help Pakistan avalanche rescuers
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
Blizzard conditions on Friday hit rescuers searching for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistani army camp as more foreign teams were due...
Pakistan digs deep for soldiers buried in avalanche
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
Rescuers searching for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistani army camp are to dig a deep tunnel into the huge mass of snow and ice, the...
Pakistan avalanche workers concentrate search
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Rescuers searching for 138 people buried under a huge avalanche at a Pakistani army camp are concentrating their efforts on five points at the site, the militar...
Weather delays Pakistan avalanche recovery equipment
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Bad weather on Monday hampered efforts to boost the search for 135 people buried in an avalanche at a Pakistani army camp, as a US team of high altitude special...
Up to 135 feared dead in Pakistan avalanche
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
Up to 135 people, mostly soldiers, were feared dead Sunday after an avalanche buried a Pakistan army camp in mountainous Kashmir, in an area known as the world'...
End of Winter: How 2012 Snow Stack Up
Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)
The mild winter of 2012 has many people asking, "Where's the snow?" These two snow cover maps show the difference between snow extent on March 3, 2011, and Marc...
UN says 145 'presumed dead' in Afghan avalanche
Mar 10, 2012 (AFP)
At least 145 people are missing and "presumed dead" after an avalanche hit a remote village in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province last week, the Uni...
Avalanche kills 37 in Afghan village: official
Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)
An avalanche has buried a village in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people and leaving dozens more still trapped under the snow, officials said T...
Snow carpets Holy Land for first time in four years
Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)
Stormy weather that carpeted Jerusalem and much of northern Israel and the Palestinian territories with snow, the first in four years, left two fatalities in it...
Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years
Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)
A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold...
Cold kills 35 Afghan children in northeast: official
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
Severe cold weather has killed 35 children in the past two days in northeastern Afghanistan, an official said Monday. The children died in four remote districts...
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