Nathalie Vriend, a skier and physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies avalanches, explains what happens in an avalanche and techniques for surviving one.

Dave Miller, owner of International Alpine Guides in June Lake, which also guides backcountry skiing trips to the Frog Lake Huts, said storm skiing isn’t as shocking as it might sound to a layperson.

Nine people, including several guides, are presumed dead in the Sierra Nevada avalanche, which was the worst in backcountry ...

It's a beautiful but treacherous stretch of coastline where drivers frequently find their vehicles being hauled from the waves after becoming partially or fully submerged. Over four decades, local ...

It's a beautiful but notorious beach where cars are regularly dragged out of the sea having become partly or completely submerged. Over the last 40 years. local farmer Dafydd Davies says he has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 5—Work has started to remove the wreckage and remediate damage after a massive oil rig tipped over and crashed to the tundra ...

In his letter to the Mountain Xpress, Doug Baughman asks: Why has NIMBY (not in my backyard) come to be seen as a bad thing? [“Why Is NIMBY Considered a Bad Thing?” Jan. 21] He remembers when the ...

New images show the incredible devastation caused after a 2.5-mile landslide hit a town in Sicily, forcing the evacuation of 1,500 people and leaving houses teetering on the edge of a cliff. Photos ...

A tragic accident claimed the life of a 22-year-old tractor driver as he fell from a moving tractor while recording reels on his mobile phone during agricultural work in the fields at Mahagaon village ...

CLITHEROE, England (AP) — Pendle Ski Club in northwest England has no snow, but is a modest ski slope covered in plastic. Britain, with its temperate climate, hardly jumps out as a skier’s paradise, ...