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Melting Arctic causes snowier winters: study

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be causing the snowier winters the northern hemisphere has experienced in the last two seasons, US and Chinese researchers rep...

Dutch prince may never regain consciousness: doctors

Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)

Dutch Prince Johan Friso, the second son of Queen Beatrix, suffered massive brain damage in an avalanche in Austria and might never regain consciousness, his do...

Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next?

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

For the first half of this year's winter, the big news was warm temperatures and lack of snow. Ski resorts were covered in bare dirt, while January temperatures...

Four dead in two US avalanches: officials

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Four people were killed in two avalanches that swept through an area near a ski resort in the northwestern US state of Washington, authorities said. US media in...

Melting ice wrecks boats on Danube

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Ice floes up to one metre (three feet) thick smashed into hundreds of boats on the River Danube near Belgrade as a thaw set in, sinking a floating restaurant, o...

Dutch prince's condition unchanged after ski accident

Feb 19, 2012 (AFP)

The condition of Prince Johan Friso, son of Dutch Queen Beatrix remained unchanged for the second night in an Austrian hospital after a horror skiing accident, ...

How Much Snow Is In Fact On the Ground?

Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)

Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists are working to address a critical wintertime weather challenge: how to accurately measure the am...

Western Austria cut off by avalanches

Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)

The westernmost Austrian province of Vorarlberg was cut off from the rest of the country Thursday after avalanches forced the closure of road and rail connectio...

Deaths from Romania's winter freeze up to 86: ministry

Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)

Another seven deaths from Romania's wave of bitterly cold weather has brought the toll up to 86, the health ministry said Wednesday, as the country struggled wi...

Snow damages Colosseum, mediaeval churches in Italy: report

Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)

Heavy snow has caused extensive damage to the mediaeval walled town of Urbino and further deteriorated the Colosseum in Rome, already badly in need of repair, I...

Serbian freeze stalls would-be immigrants' European dream

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Hiding in the Serbian woods, a group of Asian illegal immigrants tried for weeks to pass the border with Hungary, until the current freezing weather forced them...

215 Russians die in cold snap; well over 600 in Europe

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Some 215 Russians have died this year in a prolonged period of abnormally cold winter weather, the health ministry said Monday as the overall death toll for Eur...

Snow blocks in tens of thousands as cold death toll rises

Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)

Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe's big freeze rose pa...

Hungary orders Danube closed amid big freeze

Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)

Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic Friday due to thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europe's busiest waterway, as the continent's cold...

Italy braces for new wave of freezing weather

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Italy braced for another wave of freezing weather Thursday, even as soldiers worked to free villages trapped in three metres of snow and with the death toll fro...

Europe's Danube freezes over, cold snap toll at 460

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Thick ice closed vast swathes of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe's busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continen...

Hopes fade for unique Dutch ice race

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

The Netherlands was picking itself up by its bootlaces Thursday as hopes faded that a near-mythical ultra ice skating race on frozen canals will become a realit...

Aid sent by helicopter as thousands cut off in Europe

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Helicopters ferried food and medicine to iced-in villagers Wednesday as Europe's 12-day-old cold snap tightened its frigid grip on the continent, where more tha...

Dutch on edge for word on unique ice race

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

The entire Netherlands is on a knife's edge this week, holding its breath to see whether a near-mythical ultra ice skating race on frozen canals will become a r...

Wolves scavenge as Italians take shelter from biting cold

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Wolves scavenged in isolated snow-covered villages and southern Italians skied around town on Tuesday, as the Italian economy began to pay the price for the col...