The polar vortex is Earth's frozen guardian—but that guardian is starting to fail. This video dives into the science behind ...

In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

Her cross-country adventures prove that cats, dogs, and birds alike can enjoy life on the road if you know how to keep them ...

Charlottesville and much of central Virginia were under an extreme heat warning Tuesday, with temperatures predicted to stay ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

As we sweat away the summer, imagine walking out of 98-degree heat and into a 72-degree, climate-controlled ballpark to watch ...

From last winter’s polar vortex to this week’s heat wave, Chicagoans have experienced several degrees of uncomfortableness in a few short months. We weather the extreme weather well enough, thanks to ...

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into ...

Like frigid temperatures, extreme heat can also drain an EV's battery at an accelerated pace. But some EVs fare better than ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep ...

A polar vortex collapse. Now, meteorologists are calling for another collapse in the middle of March, one that could plunge the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe into a bitterly cold spell just ...