Snow

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.

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The sun reflects off peaks of the snow-capped Swiss Alps

Ski Resorts Are Giving Up on Snow

Super antifreeze in cells: The ability to survive in ice and snow developed in animals far earlier than we thought

Blowing Snow Could Help Explain The Arctic's Rapid Warming

Blowing snow contributes to Arctic warming

Significant decline of snow cover in the Northern hemisphere over the last half century

The snow forest of North America may be about to shrink

Climate change is turning snow to rain and raising risk of floods

Climate Change Is Making Floods and Landslides More Likely, Study Finds

A grisly trick helps snow flies survive freezing: self-amputation

Watch snow flies amputate their own legs to avoid freezing to death

New look at climate data shows substantially wetter rain and snow days ahead

NASA Awards Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center Contract

Rare photograph of snow in the usually baking hot Sonoran desert

Why rain on snow in the California mountains worries scientists – and is likely to get worse with climate change

Saturn’s moon Enceladus wears a thick blanket of snow

Winter storms in California trigger mudslides with heavy snow forecast

Winter storms in California cause mudslides, with heavy snow forecast

There Could Be Upward-Moving Silicon-Rich 'Snow' in Earth's Outer Core

Keeping drivers safe with a road that can melt snow, ice on its own