Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs has explained the factors leading to the development of numerous precipitation types, like rain ...

Lake Champlain has played a central role in LCC’s new Executive Director Jenny Patterson’s life. The lake was a formative ...

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...

Slush canons, snow bots and possibly heat pumps could help preserve ice on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal as winters shrink.

The lack of potable public water supply gave rise to sachet water popularly known as ‘pure water’. The sachet water and its ...

We visit a local compass maker and one of the Boston Harbor Islands ...

Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is ...

When thinking about the Arctic, images of snow, ice—maybe even a polar bear—likely come to mind. Located at the northernmost ...

Lake Erie's devastating lake-effect snow storms can smother communities with collapsed roofs and impassable roads. Could ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

The science of glacier loss is clear: in a warming world, less snow will be retained and more ice will melt. This is why the ...

The Little Lehigh Watershed Stewards are calling attention to how long rock salt sticks around in local streams and drinking ...