Coldest Large US Cities: Grand Forks, Fargo, Duluth, St. Cloud, Bismarck
The coldest large cities in the United States sit on the northern plains and the shore of Lake Superior. Grand Forks, Fargo, Duluth, St. Cl...
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Winter Storm Janus 2014: Photos of the January East Coast Blizzard
On 21 January 2014 a fast-strengthening winter storm swept up the Interstate 95 corridor and buried the cities of the US East Coast. Philad...
Nomad Collapsible Hot Tub: A Portable Wood or Propane Camping Tub
A bright yellow tub of steaming water beside a forest stream: that was the picture that made The Original Nomad famous in 2014. The Portlan...
Coast Guard Labrador Rescue in Icy Betsie Bay, Frankfort, Michigan
On a frozen February morning in 2015, crew members at U.S. Coast Guard Station Frankfort in northern Michigan looked out at Betsie Bay and ...
Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Volcanoes, Climate, Unangan People and WWII
The Aleutian Islands sweep about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) west from the Alaska Peninsula towards Kamchatka, separating the North Pacific from ...
Ten Fascinating Facts About Snow: Crystals, Records and Winter Roads
Snow is just frozen water, yet it builds sculptures the length of a city block, cuts off whole coastlines and turns red in the summer mounta...
Moose in Chest-Deep Snow Runs Past Skiers in Gaspésie, Quebec
A moose ploughs through chest-deep powder beside a group of skiers, its back and head bobbing above the snow while its legs disappear with ...
Dub Roots: Dubsatch Collective’s Powder Ski Film at Alta, Utah
Dub Roots is a short ski film by the Dubsatch Collective in which eight skiers show off their home mountain: Alta Ski Area, at the top of L...
Janice Haley’s Tigers: Janda and Saber, Two Bengal Tigers in Florida
In the back garden of her home in Orlando, Florida, Janice Haley shared her days with two Bengal tigers: Janda, an orange female of about 18...
Zia Terry’s First Ski Jump and Her Welcome by the US Women’s Team
In 2012 a ten-year-old from Park City, Utah, switched on her camera, looked down a 40-metre ski jump and talked herself into her first flig...
Yamal Craters in Siberia: How Permafrost Explodes, and the Bermuda Myth
In July 2014 helicopter crews flying over the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia spotted something nobody had seen before: a gaping round h...
10 Alaska Facts: Size, Mountains, Glaciers, Coastline and Wild Plants
Alaska is America's great northern frontier: a state so big that its east–west span reaches 2,400 miles, with more than three million la...
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Historic US Winter Storms: Ten Blizzards, Freezes and Ice Disasters
America’s worst winters have buried cities under four feet of snow, sunk freighters on the Great Lakes, frozen Florida and even silenced Ni...
Best Snow Parks in the World: 10 Terrain Parks from Laax to Breckenridge
A great snow park is more than one big jump. The best terrain parks in the world offer separate lines for beginners and pros, a well-cut hal...
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Alaska Glaciers Then and Now: 23 Historic Photo Pairs, Glacier Bay to Kenai
In 1895 a photographer on the shore of Muir Inlet looked out at a wall of ice rising from the sea. When USGS geologist Bruce Molnia returne...
18 Green Aurora Photos from Norway, Iceland, Canada, Alaska and the ISS
Green is the signature colour of the aurora, and these 18 photographs show it from two very different places: the snowy ground of Norway, I...
Ice and Snow Art: 10 Frozen Sculptures, Snow Drawings and an Ice Record
Ice and snow make extraordinary art materials precisely because they do not last. From a thousand melting ice figures in Berlin to a playab...
Iain Stewart's Avalanche Documentary: 10 Things You Didn't Know
More than a million avalanches fall around the world every year. In the BBC documentary 10 Things You Didn't Know About Avalanches , ge...
Griffin Lamb’s Pacific Northwest Landscapes: Lakes, Peaks and Technique
Griffin Lamb was 19 and a college student in Seattle when his photographs of mountains, lakes and forests began spreading across the intern...
Helsinki Zoo Brown Bears Wake from Hibernation and Play in the Snow
In early March 2013, the brown bears at Helsinki’s Korkeasaari Zoo stepped out of their winter quarters for the first time since November a...