Winter storm spawns three fatalities in NC, one in Ky. - FOX23 News - The Best Local News on the Web.

Raleigh, N.C. (AP) — Wintry weather has claimed four lives, three of them in North Carolina and the fourth in Kentucky.

Ice blocks 4,000 vehicles on China freeway | | | Indian Express

BEIJING: More than 4,000 vehicles and 8,000 people remained stranded Friday as ice blocked a section of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao freeway caused by a severe cold that swept across southern China, a media report said.

Snow and ice bring travel chaos to UK | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Flights cancelled and drivers hit by holdups as heavy snowfall and falling temperatures disrupt Christmas getaway

Heavy snow postpones Val d'Isere super-G - ESPN

VAL D'ISERE, France -- The women's World Cup super-G in Val d'Isere has been called off due to heavy snowfall.

Bestselling green books of the decade: part two | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Amazon UK's top 10 environment & ecology books for 2010:

1. How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything
Mike Berners-Lee
2. The Hockey Stick Illusion
A. W. Montford
3. The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker and Richard North
...
Overall I am struck by how well the sceptic books sell, given that their premise is a fringe one: every nation on Earth just signed up to doing something to tackle climate change in Cancún. Are conspiracy tales simply a more gripping read?