Snowstorms have hit much of the Midwest and parts of the Northeast heading into the first full week of the new year. A longtime swimsuit model is taking advantage of that. Shannon Burton, a ...

is melting away. However, The Star’s readers took the chance to capture some striking photos of Sheffield in the snow. They include snaps of little ones taking in the view, shots of Hillsborough ...

which increases the amount of sunlight that the snow soaks up and makes it melt faster, new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth ...

HACHIMANTAI, Iwate Prefecture--As the seasons change, the melting snow has revealed the “Hachimantai ... “I would like to post the photos on my Facebook account,” he added.

Precipitation usually falls as snow in winter - rather than as rain - which can balance out any melting of the ice in the summer. The scientists studied satellite pictures of the ice-sheet which ...