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Spain: Heavy Snow from Storm Leonardo Keeps Sierra Nevada Resort on High Alert

Cetursa crews worked throughout the day to safeguard the Sierra Nevada ski area from Storm Leonardo. With the resort closed due to the weather emergency, teams created snow trenches and drainage channels to protect buildings in Borreguiles and direct runoff away from the pistes. Despite these efforts, the resort remains on high alert for rising snow levels and a significant increase in avalanche risk, and will stay closed on Thursday, February 5.

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists take photos near a snow sculpture at the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 5, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianwei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists take photos at a snow sculpture near the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 5, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianwei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

A snow sculpture is pictured at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 11, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Song/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists take photos near a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Xie Jianfei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

An aerial drone photo taken on January 6, 2025 shows snow sculptures at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Xie Jianfei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists walk past a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

A tourist poses for photos by a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Xie Jianfei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

Tourists take photos near a snow sculpture at the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 13, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Xie Jianfei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

A tourist stands in front of a snow sculpture in Songbei District of Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 10, 2025. Harbin is currently in the midst of its peak ice and snow tourism season. Various high-level snow sculpture competitions are being held, and snow sculptures located across numerous attractions in the city create a unique winter landscape, allowing visitors to experience the charm of ice and snow art. Photo by Xinhua/Xie Jianfei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Austria: Unusual Heavy Snowfall Hits Parts Of Country In September

Heavy snowfall hit part of Austria on Friday, September 13. Although it wasn’t rare to see snow in September, especially at altitude, the level of it was unexpected and unusual. According to reports, the weather situation could be worsen for the next few days.

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China reaps fruits far beyond ice-snow sports at National Winter Games

STORY: China reaps fruits far beyond ice-snow sports at National Winter Games SHOOTING DATE: Feb. 26, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: HULUN BUIR, China CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of ice-snow sports 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WU DAJING, China's short track skater and Winter Olympic champion 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SU YIMING, China's snowboarder and Winter Olympic champion 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG XIN, Official of China's General Administration of Sport STORYLINE: The 14th National Winter Games of China came to an end on Tuesday. It not only provides a platform for athletes nationwide to compete at a high level, but also injects impetus into China's ice-snow economy. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WU DAJING, China's short track skater and Winter Olympic champion "Our passion for the Winter Games remains the same. We look forward to showing our best in future events and fostering more young talents through the Games." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SU YIMING, China's snowboarder

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao displays the national flag on top of Cho Oyu, at 1:19 PM, October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao displays the flag on top of Cho Oyu at 1:19 PM, October 1, 2023, Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - Ma Xiao and his team are on their way to climb Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2023, in Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - View of Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM, October 1, 2023, Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Ma Xiao Climb The World's Sixth Highest Peak Cho Oyu

SHIGATSE, CHINA - OCTOBER 1, 2023 - View of Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak, at 1:19 PM, October 1, 2023, Shigatse City, Tibet, China. At 8,201 meters above sea level, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. On the same day, 18 Chinese scientific team members also successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, carrying out a number of scientific missions such as setting up an automatic weather station at extremely high altitude, measuring the thickness of snow and ice on the summit, drilling ice cores and collecting snow and ice samples. At 8 o 'clock on May 11, 2021, Maxiao successfully stood on the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at an altitude of 8,848.86 meters.

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Chinese researchers performing "physical checkup" on Mount Qomolangma glacier

STORY: Chinese researchers performing "physical checkup" on Mount Qomolangma glacier DATELINE: May 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: MOUNT QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese scientific expedition team 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG WENQIANG, PhD, Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University STORYLINE: Chinese scientific researchers are performing a "physical checkup" of the East Rongbuk glacier at 6,350 meters above sea level on Mount Qomolangma. The checkup will provide first-hand data for the study of glacier changes on Qomolangma, ranging from visible glacier changes to high precision 3D laser scanning at the millimeter level, as well as more microscopic scientific observations. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG WENQIANG, PhD, Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University "We will collect ice and snow samples of the East Rongbuk glacier, as well as soil samples and runoff samples along the way. We will take these samples back to analy