Construction of ski slopes and ski jumps with snow cannons ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Credit - Mattia Ozbot—Getty Images Just before the Winter Olympics kicked off, Cortina ...
The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, ...
At the Winter Olympics, athletes race down immaculate white slopes. The snow looks perfect. But it is largely manufactured. In Italy, where rising temperatures and declining snowfall were felt earlier ...