Melting snow uncovers tunnels made by creatures in the subnivean zone, such as shrews and voles. Photo by Katie Finch Snow. While it’s still early in the winter, here in Chautauqua County we are ...

Along with the holidays at this time of year, there is a tradition of a different type: the Christmas Bird Counts. Using Christmas only as the time when the counts are done, they are a look at what ...

Weather is more than just a colorful chart on your television screen or crossing your fingers for a snow day. Winter comes with temperature drops, bird migration, and bundling up. Here, winter also ...

The snow this past weekend was a terrific introduction to winter. It has been so unseasonably warm recently I was afraid I hadn’t moved far enough north. The duality of snow is one of my favorite ...

I moved a little bit inland, away from the Maine coast, because I got tired of the ocean’s moderating effect; we would have rain along the coast, but not so many miles inland there would be feet of ...

Snow avalanches represent one of the most dramatic manifestations of the Earth's cryospheric dynamics. Recent studies combine experimental field investigations and advanced numerical simulations to ...

The autumn interlude between the dropping of the leaves until the snow cover, a time that I like to call AutWin, usually lasts about four weeks (roughly from Oct. 20 to Nov. 20), but this year, it ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country. As Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido boasts pristine wilderness, home to endangered Steller's sea eagle, brown ...