winter weather

Winter boots

What are the best snow boots to wear?

Technology

Winter has now hit North America and many of us are shopping for new winter boots. Researchers in Toronto came up with a rating system to test the slip resistance of 100 different types of winter boots, based on how they performed against icy conditions simulated in their state-of-the-art winter lab. You won’t be happy with what they found.

A car is covered in snow in Orchard Park outside of Buffalo, New York, November 19, 2014.

The northeastern US isn’t quite a winter ‘wonderland’ for refugees from warmer countries

Environment