It is never easy to get up from a warm bed into a cold and dark winter morning; Robert Burns knew this well from his days as a ploughman. Notes on a journey in winter across a wild landscape and ...

Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the ...

Our myths turn long nights into evergreen cut on grocery store parking lots, a continent away from thousands of reindeer starving as the Arctic ice dissolves. Only one star guides the way out to ...