Capital Weather Gang Why Beijing lacks snow, and how climate change has the Winter Olympics on a slippery slope. There’s no lack of cold for this year’s Olympics, but limited natural snow is ...

“We are very proud to say that we are the only company providing the snow-making systems for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics,” Michael Mayr, TechnoAlpin Asia area manager, told CNN.

The Beijing Games are just the latest winter sporting event to use nearly all human-made snow for competitions. Winter sports experts say this is just the new reality.

Beijing officials insist that snow production for the Games will not strain local water supplies, which have struggled to keep pace with the city’s demands.

Beijing residents sought shade and cooled off in canals on Monday as authorities issued the second-highest heat warning for ...

Beijing recorded its longest cold wave since records began in 1951 as the biting temperatures and snowfall experienced in the Chinese capital and elsewhere began to ease. The temperature recorded ...

Beijing last experienced such cold weather on Jan. 7, 2021, when the temperature fell to minus 19.6 C (minus 3.28 F). The city's all-time low of minus 27.4 C (minus 17.32 F), was recorded on Feb ...

Snow closes schools and highways in northern China for the second time this week A woman makes snowballs in the shape of dragon and duck at an office building complex, after a snowfall in Beijing ...

The city also upgraded its emergency flood response. The Beijing Meteorological Service forecasted heavy to torrential ...

It would be hard to hold a conversation over the deafening sound of the snow machines preparing the Olympic venues northwest of Beijing. They are loud and they are everywhere, ...

It would be hard to hold a conversation over the deafening sound of the snow machines preparing the Olympic venues northwest of Beijing. They are loud and they are everywhere, ...

All the Beijing snow is human-made – a resource-intensive, ‘dangerous’ trend as planet warms By Derek Van Dam , CNN 5 minute read ...