Chicago Tribune

From the Olympics in Italy to skiing the Wisconsin slopes, the race is on to adapt to warming winters

SALEM LAKES, Wis. — Under a blazing sun, dozens of skiers and snowboarders last week whizzed down a hill just north of the Illinois state line. Despite the blinding white of the slopes, most trails on ...

Saving the snow for next year: Ski resorts try 'snow farming' as temperatures rise

Amid the West’s snow drought, several ski areas are storing up manmade snow and saving it under mats for next ski season — a ...
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What's the real environmental and financial impact of artificial snow?

Could the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics be the last held on natural snow? The Games were widely hailed as a success, but also drew criticism for their heavy reliance on artificial snow: around 1 ...
Yahoo! Sports

From ski jumps and sliding bobsleds to engineering snow, here are 5 essential reads on the science of the Winter Olympics

Thousands of the world’s best athletes will flock to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy in February 2026 for the 25th Winter Olympics. While sports fans are focused on the athletic feats of the ...
AOL

What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier – and it’s everywhere

When viewers tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will see pristine, white slopes, groomed tracks and athletes racing over snow-covered landscapes, thanks in part to a storm that blanketed the ...
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All that glitters is not snow: How ski resorts are replicating reality

Over the past six years, I’ve lived in three towns that revolve around winter sports: Collingwood, Ontario, and its Blue Mountain Resort; Val-Morin in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains, with nearby Sommet ...
Panda

Olympics on fake snow - a global event running out of winter

Why is no one speaking openly about the climate crisis threatening the Winter Olympics? asks Mariagrazia Midulla, WWF Italy’s Climate and Energy Head. The 2026 Winter Olympics, which kicked off this ...
Mother Jones

In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an ...
The Tufts Daily

The science behind Olympic snow: Climate change and industrial snowmaking

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, ...
Yahoo

What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Snow Fake?

Memphis city council members Pearl Eva Walker and Yolanda Cooper Sutton (and many other people online) say that snow is fake. Sutton recently posted a video on her Facebook page to demonstrate the ...
Yahoo

Is there fake snow?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic snow, otherwise known as government snow or fake snow, has been making the rounds on social media after the recent winter ...