D.C. fireboat does battle with Potomac River ice - washingtonpost.com

...the Potomac and Anacostia rivers have become layered with forbidding stretches of ice that the city's sole ice-breaking fireboat battles daily.

BBC News - Video: Snowfall causes chaos around the world

In western China five thousand people have been evacuated from their homes.

BBC News - Ice-skaters take advantage of Amsterdam's frozen canals

Parts of Amsterdam's historic canal system have frozen over for the first time in [14 years], and amateur ice-skaters have taken full advantage.

BBC News - Miliband: Some wanted Copenhagen summit to fail

Ed Miliband, the UK's climate change secretary, said there were people at the negotiations who did not want them to succeed.

BBC News - Pope Benedict XVI lambasts Copenhagen "failure"

The Pope has criticised the failure by world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month.

Arctic blast continues to take its toll - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) – The bitter cold weather from the arctic blast that hit last week continues to wreak havoc on the Ark-La-Tex over the weekend.

The city of Shreveport was flooded with calls regarding broken water lines and busted pipes.

The Shreveport department of operations emergency call center is receiving hundreds of phone calls.

KSLA news 12 has learned that this has prompted the city to ask customers to conserve water usage, because of all the leaks and breaks.