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From late September through mid-March, three sun mirrors help make the town of Rjukan, Norway, a little brighter.

Seeing a 50 percent chance of rain on your weather app doesn't mean that rain will reach only half your area—or that it will rain for half the day.

View of the World, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

The shingled, domed-shaped salt storage structures you see on the side of the highway are an example of clever design.

Coats and jackets living together in harmony.

Though not everyone recognizes the technical difference between coats and jackets, Lands’ End definitely does.

Deserts either want to broil you alive or force you to put on layers. It's a fascinating ecological condition with a simple explanation.

Rock salt can damage concrete driveways.

Millions of people treat slippery surfaces with rock salt, but it can wind up doing your driveway a lot more harm than good.

The American side of the Niagara Falls partially frozen over in February 2015.

A spectacular video captured in February 2021 shows a rainbow over a partially frozen Niagara Falls.

It may be tempting to use your backyard as a freezer during the Texas power outage, but the USDA warns that that's a bad idea.

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), NOAA

Nor’easters have earned their reputation for wreaking havoc on land. But what qualifies a storm as a nor’easter?

Snowflake photography is a tricky business, so one innovative cameraman built a whole new device for it.

For safety’s sake, if you have a driveway on your property, ice eradication should be a top priority. Here are four tried and tested strategies you can choose from.

The next time you need to clear snow off your walkway and driveway, try rolling it into a giant snowball instead of shoveling it.

Blizzards and snowstorms have some things in common.

Both snowstorms and blizzards involve snow (obviously) and hazardous conditions, but one has a few requirements to make sure it blows extra hard.

Bermuda's red soil and the Bahamas's white-sand beaches might have come from the same place: the Sahara Desert.

Wildfires have reached historic proportions this year.

The August Complex fire ravaging California is being called a "gigafire," and it's every bit as imposing and destructive as the name implies.

Some people can change their winter mindset.

Learning to think like a Norwegian may help Americans cope with a winter made harder by the pandemic.

The northern lights were spotted the night the 'Titanic' sank, and the solar storm that caused them may have contributed to the ship's demise.

A wildfire near Shaver Lake, California, earlier this month.

Wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington are devastating communities—here’s how you can help victims.

Blood stars and Acadian redfish lurk near plates and a stove from the Portland.

The SS 'Portland' vanished into the Atlantic during a storm of the century, but we still don’t know exactly why it sank.

Death Valley National Park in California.

The searing heat comes close to the 134 degrees recorded in Death Valley in 1913. But with that temperature called into question, Sunday's measurement may be the hottest ever.

The face of a dog who clearly knows that a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Your dog’s anxiety might be from the thunder itself—or it could be related to knowing a thunderstorm is coming.

Team members climb up a slope during the expedition to find Sandy Irvine's remains on Mount Everest.

‘Lost on Everest’ chronicles a mission to find one of Mount Everest’s first missing bodies, while ‘Expedition Everest’ studies climate change on the mountain.

A "Pole of Cold" monument commemorating Verkhoyansk as one of the coldest places on Earth.

A “heat dome” is partially to blame, but climate change has been causing alarmingly high temperatures in Siberia for months.

You may not want to put your ice scraper away just yet.

The cold front will affect large portions of the Northeast, with snow accumulation possible in Pennsylvania and New York.

Rjukan, Norway: The Town That Relies on Giant Mirrors for Winter Sunlight

What the 'Probability of Precipitation' on Your Weather App Really Means

What Are Those Domes on the Side of the Highway Used For?

Coat vs. Jacket: What’s the Difference?

Why Are Deserts So Hot During the Day and Cold at Night?

The Reason You Should Never Spread Rock Salt on Concrete Driveways

Niagara Falls Freezes Over As Temperatures Plunge in North America

USDA Warning: Your Yard Is Not a Freezer, So Don’t Put Your Food Outside If You Lose Power

What Exactly Is a Nor’easter?

Say “Freeze!”: An Innovative High-Resolution Camera Captures the Stunning Intricacies of Snowflakes

4 Ways to De-Ice Your Driveway

Tired of Shoveling Snow? Try Rolling It

What's the Difference Between a Snowstorm and a Blizzard?

How African Dust Storms Create the Caribbean’s Beautiful Beaches—and Protect Them from Hurricanes

What Exactly Is a Gigafire?

Norwegians May Hold the Secret to Braving a Winter Lockdown

Did the Northern Lights Play a Role in the Sinking of the Titanic? A New Paper Says It’s Possible

5 Ways to Help Victims of the West Coast’s Wildfires

New Expedition Will Explore the 1898 Shipwreck Known as ‘New England’s Titanic’—And You Can Livestream It

It Was 130 Degrees in Death Valley This Weekend—Likely the Hottest Temperature Recorded on Earth Since 1913

The Reason Dogs Are Terrified of Thunderstorms—And How You Can Help

Expeditions Gather Climate Change Clues on Mount Everest in Two New Documentaries

It Was 100 Degrees in Siberia This Weekend—The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic

Snow Kidding: A Polar Vortex Could Hit the Eastern U.S. This Month