At wintertime, seasonal winds blowing in from the Japan Sea transform the trees of the Zao mountain range into "snow monsters", or Zao Juhyo. The rime-covered trees are a popular tourist ...

But Fumitaka Yanagisawa, a professor emeritus at Yamagata University’s Research Institute for Ice Monsters and Volcanoes of Zao, warns that ... trees are covered with snow and ice, creating ...

Mount Kilimanjaro has lost a lot of its ice over time. The ice coverage has decreased dramatically: The loss of snow on ...

Winter is especially nice, though, because of its unique positioning south of Mount Yotei and ... One of Zao's most popular attractions are the snow monsters — unusual shapes created by the ...

Japan's Mount Fuji has seen its first snowfall after going through the longest period without snow since records began 130 ...

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, photographs shared by local authorities and residents showed Wednesday, after the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The national ...

Photos posted online of the Japanese national symbol without its iconic snowcap had raised concerns about climate change; the delay is the longest in 130 years of records.

Global warming is one of many factors that led to the slow snow cover. Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, photographs shared by local authorities and residents showed Wednesday, after the ...

But photographs taken from different points around the active volcano, where the skies were clearer early on Wednesday, showed a covering of snow on its peak. "These are photos of Mount Fuji ...