Europe’s Danube freezes over, cold snap toll at 460
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 continent rose to at least 460. As it has...
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Of orbits and ice ages, Axis Tilt
Though it was first suggested well over a century ago, the hypothesis that changes in Earth’s orientation relative to its orbit influence the growth and decline of ice sheets was only recently tested. As...
Deadly floods follow in iced-over Europe
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Much of Europe is still covered in snow and ice, but some areas are already seeing deadly flooding amid concerns that it will get worse before it gets better. Swollen rivers...
Thousands trapped by record snowfall
(multimedia) Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands left stranded by its heaviest snowfall on record. Across Europe, millions of people continued digging out in a cold...
Europe cold snap death toll rises
More deaths have been reported from the cold snap across Europe, which has already claimed more than 200 lives. Ukraine continues to be hardest hit, with another nine deaths overnight. Officials say 131 have...
Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico
MEXICO CITY — A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated...
Records set for Florida’s lack of rain
We know that wildfires in Florida have been in the news recently. It’s one of the main factors in Sunday’s deadly and tragic I-75 pileup in northern Florida south of Gainesville. Very little rain...
Blizzard to Target Colorado, Nebraska, Northwest Kansas
A modest snowfall over the northern Rockies will turn into a raging snowstorm and even a blizzard for part of the central High Plains to the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies to end...
Raw Video: Mountains of snow in Japan
(multimedia) Snowstorms have battled the northern Japan Coast. The area has received more than twice as much snow as average.
Serbia: 11,000 trapped in remote villages by snow
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia’s mountains, authorities said Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s weeklong deep freeze rose to...
