(Natural News) Rare levels of snowfall hit Tasmania overnight on Tuesday, August 4, blanketing the island state for the first time in years. In Launceston, meteorologists said that snow has not settled since the 1970s. Settled snow means it forms on the ground. And while snowfall is not rare in the region, the tremendous amounts […]

(Natural News) Over the past few days, over 40 inches of snow have fallen on the province of Gilan, which sits in the northern regions of Iran, hugging the Caspian sea and bordering Azerbaijan to the northwest. The unprecedented snowstorm has been so difficult that cars, homes, people and herds of animals have been buried deep in a thick layer […]

(Natural News) Once upon a time so-called “preppers” — people who believe they should be prepared for any and all possible scenarios including the great apocalypse — were deemed ‘crazies,’ though mostly by city folks who believe, falsely, that grocery stores magically have endless supplies of food. The fact is grocery stores don’t have much […]

(Natural News) People can now tap snowfall for electricity, thanks to triboelectric nanogenerators that collect electrical energy from innocuous activities like footsteps and raindrops. The new energy harvester, developed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is not only inexpensive but light as well – matching the thinness and flexibility of a plastic sheet. “The device […]

(Natural News) Would you believe that after many years of intensive study, performed by some of the most brilliant experts in their respective fields, that there’s still a lot of stuff that’s currently unknown about water in relation to the Earth itself? Indeed, that seems to be the gist of a recent report which showed […]

(Natural News) One of the four ski resorts that calls the state of Arizona home is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging that the company managing it is defiling the sacredness of the land by spraying ski run terrain with artificial snow made from reclaimed water. According to the Hopi tribe, the San Francisco […]

(Natural News) Spring usually means warmer weather and thawing snow. However, the seasons’s arrival could also pose a threat to the general public’s health as thawing snow also releases toxic chemicals as they melt. A team of researchers from McGill University and École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, Canada have found that urban snow absorbs toxic fumes from […]