Mrs. Salvesen

Clouds with oddly shaped holes or hole punches, ones that look like UFO's have crashed through them, have bemused public and experts alike, for many decades. While known to occu...

Now in its 26th year, China's annual Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, is one of the largest and most popular festival of its kind in the world. Held in Harbin, the capital of th...

On November 2nd, the streets of Beijing were treated to an unseasonal snow storm - one that lasted for 11 hours, blanketing the entire city with 16 million tons of snow and caus...

This year's freezing temperatures in Europe are definitely music to the owners of Finland's snow castle - a temporary hotel that has to be re-built every year, since it melts aw...

If you have never seen or heard of a snow roller or snow donut, it's because these amazing natural formations occur very rarely, under only the most perfect conditions and, last...

Pierre, a 25-year-old penguin that resides at the California Academy of Sciences in California, had a big problem. In late 2006, he started to lose his waterproof feathers, espe...

Any mention of the Bahamas tends to evoke images of pristine white sands, crystal clear water and . . . pigs? Apparently they are the main attraction for the thousands of touris...

An anonymous American millionaire is making headlines after his death - for bequeathing $8mm USD to a rather unusual cause - To save Australia's Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombats!

First there was Cinders, the pig who was scared of mud and now we have a 11-year old Kentucky, a Humboldt Penguin, who is petrified of going into the water.

Usually when marine mammals like dolphins and whales get stranded on beaches, people wait for experts to come and help rescue them. What usually ends up happening is that many d...