The Igarka Plane-Pushing Story: A Siberian Winter Aviation Archive
An aircraft, a snowy apron and passengers beside the wing made an unusual winter-news image. The 2014 story from Igarka in Siberia spread w...
From the archive
Buffalo’s Snowbank Drinks Fridge: The Photograph Behind a Winter Joke
Open the door and there it is: a wall of snow with drinks tucked into little shelves. The photograph credited to meteorologist Zack Green t...
A Squirrel Takes the GoPro: An Unexpected View from the Tree
A ground-level camera has an unexpected visitor, and the view soon leaves its carefully chosen position. The squirrel-GoPro clip is funny b...
Siberia’s Gas-Emission Craters: What the Yamal Evidence Actually Shows
A hole in Siberian permafrost is a scientific puzzle worth understanding on its own. Linking it to the Bermuda Triangle may create a louder...
Tromsø in Winter: Northern Lights, Arctic History and City Days
Tromsø gives a northern-lights trip something valuable: a city to enjoy when the sky has other plans. Waterfront views, cultural stops and ...
American Cities in Winter: Reading the Snow and Ice Gallery
The skyline may be familiar, but the foreground changes everything. Thick waterfront ice, snow around park trees and a pale strip of winter...
Åreskutan’s Ice-Covered Lift: A Winter Photograph by Anders Carlsson
The cabins still hang in a familiar line, but their thick white coating makes them look almost sculpted. Anders Carlsson’s photograph from ...
Buffalo’s November 2014 Snowstorm: From the Snow Band to the Doorstep
A broad cloud boundary dominates the first view. Later, one person in a red jacket works through a narrow snowy path. Together, these archi...
Robbie Maddison’s Drop In: A Motorcycle Meets a Ski-Jumping Venue
A ski-jumping venue has a familiar purpose, which is exactly why a motorcycle on its approach feels so unexpected. Robbie Maddison’s Drop I...
Kinkaku-ji in Winter: Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion and Its Garden
Gold, white and dark water make a striking winter palette. At Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, the pavilion’s colour stands out most clearly when snow ...
Huanglong’s Travertine Pools: A Mountain Landscape in Sichuan
Turquoise water steps down the valley in shallow-looking terraces, with pale mineral rims tracing each pool. Huanglong’s photographs are es...
Lake Tahoe: Clear Water, Mountain Shores and a Deeper Story
Rounded boulders seem suspended in the shallows, while the mountain shoreline gives Lake Tahoe a much larger frame. These photographs rewar...
Aurora Borealis in Real Time: Watch the Northern Lights Change Shape
The aurora’s movement is the main event in Kwon O Chul’s Aurora Substorm — Real time motion . The Yellowknife recording offers a useful cont...