Moose Rescued from Lake Ice in Sweden: Skaters Chop a Path to Shore
A winter skating trip in Sweden turned into a rescue when a group of skaters found a moose trapped in a hole in the lake ice. The animal had...
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30 Creative Snowmen: Funny Ideas, Snow Animals and Tips for Building
A carrot nose, two coal eyes and a scarf are where most snowmen begin. Then someone gives theirs a phone, turns it upside down or builds a ...
Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Photos of Cracks, Bubbles and Ice
White cracks branch across deep blue ice, and pale bubbles hang frozen beneath the surface like scattered coins. Photographer Kristina Makee...
How an Igloo Keeps You Warm: Snow Insulation, Cold Traps and Inuit Design
Outside, the air can fall to −45 °C. Inside a well-built igloo warmed by nothing more than the people sleeping in it, the temperature can s...
Vadim Trunov’s Winter Squirrel Photos: Snowballs, Cameras and Pine Cones
A squirrel peers over a camera as if checking the shot. Another lifts a snowball over its head. Two more stretch up towards a flying pine co...
Figure Skating on a Frozen Mountain Lake: Katrina Lazzarotto in BC
A skater glides across black, glassy ice while snow-covered peaks rise all around and repeat themselves in the reflection. In early 2016 he...
Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Glassy Ice Plates at Duluth’s Brighton Beach
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of breaking glass when its ice starts to move. On 13 February 2016 Dawn M. LaPointe of Radiant...
Boston Street Skiing: Clayton Vila and Cam Riley in the Record 2015 Winter
In the winter of 2015 Boston was buried under the heaviest snow in its recorded history, and two young skiers treated the city as a terrain...
Sloan Henderson: The 14-Month-Old Snowboarder of Park City, Utah
Sloan Henderson was 14 months old, had only just learned to walk, and was already riding a snowboard. In January 2016 her parents filmed he...
Finn’s Snow Maze: A Puppy’s Backyard Paths After the 2016 Blizzard
For a small dog, a foot of fresh snow turns the garden into a wall. When that much fell on Great Neck, New York, in January 2016, Finn’s ow...
Finnish Night Sky Photography: Joni Niemelä’s Moonlight and Star Trails
Finnish photographer Joni Niemelä photographed the night sky over rural Finland between 2011 and 2016, most of it in the region of Southern...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Brooklyn Igloo on Airbnb: The $200 Snow Shelter of the 2016 Blizzard
When the January 2016 blizzard buried New York under a record 27.5 inches of snow, Brooklyn art director Patrick M. Horton and his roommate...
Frozen Soap Bubbles: ZALUSKArt’s −15 °C Film and the Snow-Globe Effect
A clear soap bubble rests on fresh snow. Within seconds, feathery ice crystals appear on its skin, swirl around the sphere and knit together...
Vera Kovaleva Feeds Kartal’s Street Cats in Snowy Istanbul
Every day of a snowy Istanbul winter, cats came running along narrow paths cut through the drifts to meet one woman carrying food. A video ...
Casey Neistat Snowboarding New York: The 2016 Blizzard Film
On January 23, 2016, New York City was buried under the deepest snowfall in its recorded history, and its roads were closed to traffic. The...
Skiing the Alps with a Camera: Laura Wagemakers’s Snowy Day
After a winter that started with almost no snow, it finally snowed for days in the Alps, and then the sun came out. Laura Wagemakers took h...
Janitor's Revenge: The Zigzag Snow Path Video and Why People Follow It
After a heavy snowfall, someone cleared a path across an open, snow-covered square, but instead of a straight line they shovelled a long, l...
Frozen Flowers in Minnesota: Why Petals Shatter After a Night Outside
Leave a bouquet on a Minnesota porch on a January night and by morning it shatters like glass. That is the whole idea behind “Frozen Flower...
Boiling Water Into Snow: The Science of Hot Water in Extreme Cold
Toss a pot of boiling water into the air on a bitterly cold day and something magical happens: instead of splashing on the ground, it bursts...