The snow-making entrepreneurs enjoying the surging demand for fake snow are tight-lipped about the ingredients, the ratio of water to soapy additive and the equipment used to spread it.

But La Molina now faces an existential threat: A dearth of snow. As global temperatures rise, the resort, like many around the world, is being forced to rely increasingly on artificial snow.

While the BoM predicts rainfall will return to normal following droughts in southeastern Australia, above-average ...

A lack of snow and abnormally mild temperatures are threatening ski resorts in the eastern United States, Europe and Asia. As natural snow becomes scarcer and temperatures creep too high for ...

Snowmaking is crucial, especially early in the season, and newer machines are more energy- and water-efficient, allowing resorts to make more artificial snow. Climate change is drastically ...

Artificial snow is a crucial part of creating winter wonderlands for skiing and other winter sports. The process begins by turning water into tiny ice crystals using snow machines that blast a ...

“It’s the only one of its kind in Maine,” he said. Saturday was sunny and a cool 27 degrees and, with the artificial snow and several inches of natural snow that fell Friday into ...

He said they let the piles of man-made snow that comes out of their guns leech moisture for days before spreading it onto the slopes. The artificial snow layer will help Copper open early ...

One of Scotland's mountain ski resorts is to keep artificially producing snow until May. Andy Meldrum, managing director of Glencoe Mountain, said it had been a poor winter in terms of natural ...