A deadly cold snap that is gripping East Asia has killed at least four people in Japan after subzero temperatures and heavy snow brought travel chaos during the Lunar New Year holiday, with ...

Afghanistan has felt the cold snap more acutely than any other country in Asia this month. The country’s minister of disaster management told Reuters this week that about half of the 162 deaths ...

A Russian man survived 66 days in the icy waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, the coldest sea in East Asia, in an inflatable boat. The ordeal claimed the lives of his brother and 15-year-old nephew ...

From the early 2000s until recently, anomalous cold trend in East Asia coincided with the accumulation of heat near the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic, and that in North America coincided with ...