
Q&A: Europe's freezing Easter and global warming
Is it Easter or Christmas? Many Europeans would be forgiven for being confused by winter's icy grip on lands that should be thawing in springtime ...

Decimated Ga. plant a symbol of storm's power
For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. She and two other women ...

Flooded and frozen: Cold torments storm survivors
Polar air settled in earnest over the Northeast after trekking through the Midwest, grinding trains to a halt, bursting pipes and bringing further ...

Midwest bundles up as bitter cold grips region
Homeless people scrambled to find shelter, schools closed down and plumbers wrestled with frozen pipes Tuesday as the Upper Midwest endured a third ...

Latest inaugural forecast: Bit warmer than in 2009
Consider it the first fact check of a Barack Obama campaign pledge for his second term: Will he, or Mother Nature, deliver on promised warmer ...

Cold still threatens crops in West but it's easing
The freeze gripping the West appeared on the verge of easing Tuesday, but farmers who spent millions to protect crops were still assessing damage, ...

Bitter cold grips West; citrus and lettuce damaged
As an unusual cold spell gripped parts of the West for a fifth day, some California citrus growers reported damage to crops and an agriculture ...

Calif. chills, but dodges crop damage in cold snap
Residents remained bundled up and growers in the Central Valley again took measures to protect their citrus crops Sunday, as California's cold snap ...

Californians deal with freezing temps, snow
Oddly enough, even polar bears at the San Diego Zoo are getting a helping hand with the unseasonable freezing temperatures sweeping across California.

Zookeepers, growers prepare for California freeze
Zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees and strawberry growers covered their crops as Californians braced Friday for three days of freezing ...

From monkeys to surfers, Calif. braces for cold
Strawberry growers covered their crops while San Diego zookeepers turned on heaters for the chimpanzees as Californians braced for a cold snap that ...
37 dead in Ukraine from cold spell
Ukrainian health officials say 37 people have died from the severe cold spell that hit the country this month. Temperatures have dropped as low as ...

Snowfall a boon for Upper Midwest outdoors fans
After enduring last year's snowless winter, skiers and snowmobilers may have despaired of ever seeing a decent snowfall again. But fans of the wintry ...