View post: It Could Soon Be Illegal for Gen Z to Partake in One Centuries-Old Habit West Coast faces heavy rain and snow after an unusually dry winter. Nine skiers remain missing after an avalanche ...

Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4–5 on Europe's ...

Although the fundamental constitutive laws for steel and concrete were established more than a century ago, weak layers in snow remain a mystery. There are currently two theories about how they fail.

Authorities said 25 skiers, who had been descending Val Ridanna in the Italian Alps, got caught in an avalanche that occurred around 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 21 Two people died, three ...

DENVER (KDVR) — When you live in close proximity to an area that is constantly under threat from natural disasters, like Oklahoma with tornadoes, California with earthquakes and Colorado with ...

It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height of the annual ski season. But Tuesday's deadly incident in California, which took the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) A deadly avalanche ...

Acclaimed French ski mountaineer Guillaume "Gee" Pierrel has died at age 42 after being caught in an avalanche on K6 in ...

A recent dry spell meant that as heavy snow fell this week, it landed on an unstable snowpack. By Nazaneen Ghaffar and Judson Jones Weather reporters The conditions that set off Tuesday’s avalanche ...