This season, more than 20 people died in avalanches in the U.S. Can mountains ... directions when it hits the ground.” Snow is Earth’s winter blanket, an insulated layer that is ...

In a gliding avalanche, the entire snowpack slides down a suitable substratum such as grass or slabs of rock. Such avalanches are always released naturally. This requires the snow on the ground to ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar ... is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase ...

An unusually heavy spring storm across the Alps sparked chaos on Thursday, as it dumped more than a meter of snow in some ...

Ice is a complicated material,” says Jean-Denis Brassard, an anti-icing specialist at the University of Quebec. Although one chunk may look like any other, each is a messy collection of individual ...

Lochaber's Grey Corries in a picture taken in early April from Aonach Beag Scotland's latest avalanche season has been wound up after recording the lowest number of snow slides in its almost 40 ...