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Canada: Montreal Residents Ski Through Streets As Heavy Snow Falls

Montreal received 75 cm of snow between Thursday, February 13, and Sunday, February 16, due to two consecutive snowstorms, marking the highest snowfall for any four-day period since record-keeping began in 1941. This video shows residents skiing down the streets of Montreal and a man running in shorts amid heavy snowfall.

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Canada: Storms Batter Montreal, Dumping Record-Breaking Snowfall 2

Montreal received 75 cm of snow between Thursday, February 13, and Sunday, February 16, as a result of two consecutive snowstorms, marking the highest snowfall for any four-day period since record-keeping began in 1941.

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Canada: Storms Batter Montreal, Dumping Record-Breaking Snowfall

Montreal received 75 cm of snow between Thursday, February 13, and Sunday, February 16, as a result of two consecutive snowstorms, marking the highest snowfall for any four-day period since record-keeping began in 1941.

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Russian regions fight flood as water levels remain high

STORY: Russian regions fight flood as water levels remain high SHOOTING TIME: April 16-18, 2024 DATELINE: April 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:02 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: (Source: Emercom of Russia) 1. various of affected areas and rescue efforts STORYLINE: Russia's Kurgan and Tyumen regions have evacuated more than 15,000 people as of Thursday due to flooding threat as water levels are forecast to continue rising in the coming days. In the Kurgan region, the water level of the Tobol River keeps rising, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said Thursday, adding that in the regional center, the level has reached around 970 cm, surpassing the dangerous mark. Almost 14,000 people have been evacuated, with 2,090 residential buildings and 3,380 country houses flooded, data from the regional department of emergency situations showed Thursday. The water in the Tobol River near Kurgan will continue to rise in the next one to two days, the department said. In the neighboring Tyumen re

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Winter Storm Prompts Warnings To Stay Off Roads - Saskatchewan

Highway 16 during a Winter Storm Warning in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Sunday, March 3, 2024. The city saw large amount of snow and strong winds. A severe winter storm is wreaking havoc across Saskatchewan, plunging the region into a snowy standstill for the second day. Central and southern parts of the province are bracing for snowfall totals that could reach up to 40 cm, accompanied by strong wind gusts of 60 to 70 km/h, as forecasted by Environment and Climate Change Canada. This unprecedented weather event is causing significant disruptions, including highway closures and travel advisories in and around Saskatoon, the Battlefords, and Kindersley. Photo by Liam Richards/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winter Storm Prompts Warnings To Stay Off Roads - Saskatchewan

Highway 16 during a Winter Storm Warning in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Sunday, March 3, 2024. The city saw large amount of snow and strong winds. A severe winter storm is wreaking havoc across Saskatchewan, plunging the region into a snowy standstill for the second day. Central and southern parts of the province are bracing for snowfall totals that could reach up to 40 cm, accompanied by strong wind gusts of 60 to 70 km/h, as forecasted by Environment and Climate Change Canada. This unprecedented weather event is causing significant disruptions, including highway closures and travel advisories in and around Saskatoon, the Battlefords, and Kindersley. Photo by Liam Richards/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nikon's 3-D photoframe

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Nikon Corp.'s NF-300i digital picture frame, which enables users to see 3-D images of their photographs with the naked eye through an online image-processing service. Nikon said Oct. 26, 2010 that it will start the members-only service in early December to convert photos into 3-D images for the device, which measures 16 centimeters high and 18 cm wide.

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Takashimaya to sell 20 million yen teddy bear

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co. said Oct. 30 it will put on sale a 20.06 million yen teddy bear (bottom) ahead of the upcoming Christmas and end-of-year shopping season. The 90-centimeter tall bear wears a tiara 16 cm in diameter encrusted with 9.54 karats worth of diamonds and 2.71 karats of pink sapphires. It will also sell a 50-cm bear (top) with a smaller tiara garnished with 3.30 karats of diamonds at a price of 5.25 million yen.

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm.

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Space reentry experiment device unveiled

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A space reentry device, called DASH (Demonstrator of Atmospheric reentry System with Hyperbolic Velocity), is unveiled to the media at the National Space Development Agency of Japan's (NASDA) space center in Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture on Dec. 16. DASH will be loaded into Japan's second H-2A rocket to be launched Jan. 31 by the government's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. The device consists of box-shaped storage equipment (fore) and a cylinder-shaped tester (center), which is 40 centimeters wide, 20 cm high and weighs 16 kilograms.

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Japanese top spins for record length of time

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The high-tech top designed and built by Inosuke Mori, a 69-year-old retired professor, breaks a world record Oct. 24, spinning nonstop for 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. The time is 16 minutes, 7 seconds longer than the current record listed in the Guinness Book. The top, which weighs 13 kg and measures 90 cm high and 90 cm in diameter, is substantially smaller and lighter than the top that produced the previous record: 2 meters high and 360 kg in weight.

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Technology helps China's logistics industry better handle "Double 11" shopping festival

STORY: Technology helps China's logistics industry better handle "Double 11" shopping festival DATELINE: Nov. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:16 LOCATION: CHENGDU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chengdu "Asia No. 1" smart warehouse STORYLINE: China's annual e-commerce bonanza, known as "Double 11", usually kicks off in late October and embraces a climax on Nov. 11. This year's shopping festival witnesses further development of China's logistics industry supported by intelligent technology. The Chengdu "Asia No. 1" smart warehouse is one of the logistics centers of JD Logistics, the supply chain arm under Chinese online retailer JD.com. It covers an area of 365 mu (about 24 hectares), and is the largest modern logistics warehouse in southwest China. It deals with purchase orders of five provinces. Logistic robot, automatic warehousing system and some advanced logistic equipment and technology have already been applied in every link of e-commerce supply chain. Barely 20 cm in height, the robots ca

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Takashimaya to sell 20 million yen teddy bear

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co. said Oct. 30 it will put on sale a 20.06 million yen teddy bear (bottom) ahead of the upcoming Christmas and end-of-year shopping season. The 90-centimeter tall bear wears a tiara 16 cm in diameter encrusted with 9.54 karats worth of diamonds and 2.71 karats of pink sapphires. It will also sell a 50-cm bear (top) with a smaller tiara garnished with 3.30 karats of diamonds at a price of 5.25 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Materials makes world's largest gold bar

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has made the world's largest gold bar weighing 250 kilograms (photo), the company announced on June 16. The gold bar, valued at 400 million yen (about $3.7 million), measures 45.5 centimeters by 22.5 cm at the base and is 17 cm high. The photo was provided by Mitsubishi Materials. (Kyodo)

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Nikon's 3-D photoframe

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Nikon Corp.'s NF-300i digital picture frame, which enables users to see 3-D images of their photographs with the naked eye through an online image-processing service. Nikon said Oct. 26, 2010 that it will start the members-only service in early December to convert photos into 3-D images for the device, which measures 16 centimeters high and 18 cm wide. (Kyodo)

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NGK develops world's 1st ceramic displays+

NAGOYA, Japan - NGK Insulators Ltd. said Oct. 16 it has developed displays of up to 120 inches (300 centimeters) that are made from ceramics and have resolution nine times those of conventional light-emitting diode (LED) displays. NGK said its Ceram Vision -- a large display ranging in size from 60 inches (150 cm) to 120 inches for such public spaces as railway stations and airports -- and the 121 cm by 29 cm Ceram Board are slated for launch next spring and will be the world's first commercial application of ceramic displays. Unlike LED displays, ceramic displays can reproduce the color white.

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Japanese top spins for record length of time

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The high-tech top designed and built by Inosuke Mori, a 69-year-old retired professor, breaks a world record Oct. 24, spinning nonstop for 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. The time is 16 minutes, 7 seconds longer than the current record listed in the Guinness Book. The top, which weighs 13 kg and measures 90 cm high and 90 cm in diameter, is substantially smaller and lighter than the top that produced the previous record: 2 meters high and 360 kg in weight.