At the Winter Olympics, athletes race down immaculate white slopes. The snow looks perfect. But it is largely manufactured.

Can Utah successfully host the 2034 Olympics in a winter like this? Organizers say yes thanks to snowmaking, storage and salt ...

If you skied the Italian Olympic courses, you'd fly down the mountain. The special process of making world-class technical snow uses more water, resulting in snow that's particularly firm and durable.

By any metric, it’s been a ski season for the ages. Frequent snows, persistently cold temperatures and an around-the-clock ...

Scott notes that, in some cases, the practice can change the ecological balance of a region, causing, for example, delayed ...

Under a blazing sun, dozens of skiers and snowboarders last week whizzed down a hill just north of the Illinois state line.

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made ...

The Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 highlighted its efforts to reduce the environmental impact and support long-term benefits ...

Unpredictable conditions are limiting where it’s physically and financially possible to host the Winter Olympics.

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...

Despite a barren start to Colorado's ski season, Winter Park Resort opened on Halloween and served up holiday powder. The ski ...