Winter has turned Edith Lake just outside the Canadian town of Jasper into a pale sheet of turquoise. Across the icy surface on the ­opposite shore, log cabins hunker among spruce and pine trees, ...

I was one of those people who thought Lake Louise and the Canadian Rockies were too pretty. Like, suspiciously photogenic.

They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have ...