Winter shifts people indoors and inward. While this may reduce incidental social contact, connection can be maintained through deliberate routines and low-threshold forms of engagement.
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The municipality of Jasper is located within a national park, making for a unique situation regarding land ownership and planning.
Record-breaking winter warmth has been felt across large parts of Australia, with more to come in coming days. A climate scientist explains what’s going on.
As the climate changes and weather warms, the freezing line is shifting, bringing rain to many regions more accustomed to snow.
How to protect your extremities to avoid frostbite in cold weather.
An El Niño weather-warming phase is underway in the Pacific – but what does this mean for the weather in Europe?
The key ingredients for a storm to undergo bombogenesis are an unstable atmosphere, temperature differences and high-speed winds in the upper atmosphere.
It’s hard to get accurate measurements, but a nationwide network of more than 8,000 volunteers with rulers and specific standards reports after every storm.
The winter solstice is past, but bundle up – January is when winter really arrives in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
There will be more weather-driven disasters like February’s deep freeze in Texas, and energy planners aren’t prepared.
Keeping kids active in winter can be a challenge, as cold temperatures and icy conditions often mean more time indoors. Here’s how to maintain a healthy activity level throughout Canadian winters.
While many plant species fail to germinate, some mammals may wake up to a landscape devoid of prey.
Leaving your coat at home on a cold winter day doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to get sick. But it could make you more susceptible to germs.
Shovelling snow is excellent exercise that works the upper and lower body. However, it’s important to remember that digging out from a storm pushes many people to their maximal fitness capacity.
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Associate Professor of Sustainability, Georgetown University
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Associate professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Professor and Director of the Child Health and Physical Activity Lab, Western University
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Climate Dynamics, University of East Anglia
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Associate Teaching Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Manager of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center, Penn State
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Professor of Botany, Edge Hill University
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Adjunct Professor, Child Health and Physical Activity Lab, School of Occupational Therapy, Western University
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Southern California
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada