14-01-08 Weather records have tumbled across North America, as all 50 US states saw freezing temperatures. 一场寒潮横扫北美大陆，美国50个州的气温都显著下降。 The most extreme arctic blasts, blamed on a weather pattern known as the polar vortex, were said to...

13-12-23 Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a new aquifer（蓄水层） in the Greenland Ice Sheet that holds liquid water all year long in the otherwise perpetually（永恒地） frozen winter landscape. The aquifer is extensive, covering 27,000...

13-12-19 To Winter Rebecca Dunham You are catch-less, you are my abandonment You are my very own sweet crone（老母羊） . Timeless slab of ice and raw scrub, you empty me to pitted fruit-stone, a sacrifice To the green, green moon. You stiffen, sexless as the...

13-12-15 Millions hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend from Texas to Ohio to Tennessee as a cold snap covered much of the nation, knocking out power and making roads treacherous Saturday. 上周末，寒潮侵袭美国大部分地区，从得...

13-11-25 Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes（鳞片，白点） of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony（乌木，黑檀） . And whilst she was sewing an...

13-11-14 It's a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy（遮盖） of second-growth conifers（松柏类） . The tree cover is dense here, and little light seeps in...

13-07-27 A new report projects that by the middle of this century there will be an average 56 percent drop in the amount of water stored in peak snowpack in the McKenzie River watershed（流域，分水岭） of the Oregon Cascade Range -- and that similar impacts...

13-05-08 For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet（被单，床罩） of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperature...

12-10-17 The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began. A few flakes first, in the dull gray late-afternoon sky, and then wind-driven swirls and eddies around the edges of their wide front porch. He stood by her side at the window, watching s...

12-10-15 The wind has gently murmured through the blinds, or puffed（疏松的） with feathery softness against the windows, and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr（和风，西风） lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. The meadow mouse has slept in h...