Warmer winters are turning snow into rain, creating unstable snowpacks and making avalanches more dangerous and harder to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of forecasters for the Sierra Avalanche Center provide daily avalanche advisories based on their field observations ...

When the weather is warm, the potential for larger wet slab avalanches increases. As the water drains, a weak layer of snow ...

A father snowmobiling with his son and a young girl were killed in separate avalanches in Utah, the latest avalanche deaths as recent storms have brought heavy snow and unstable backcountry terrain to ...

Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “Mountains are ...

At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe area, The Sacramento Bee reported. Six were rescued and the ...

At least five people were killed in a string of avalanches in western Austria, authorities said Saturday. The government office of the Tyrol region said intense snowfall over the last week led to ...

The conditions that drove the deadliest avalanche in California's modern history began to emerge days in advance, as a blizzard brewed after an unusually dry January in the Sierra Nevada. Citing rapid ...