The polar vortex has been “considerably stronger” than usual this year, according to Laura Ciasto, a meteorologist with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, which should keep record-breaking ...

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

The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research.. Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of ...

The Arctic polar vortex is a strong band of winds in the stratosphere, 10-30 miles above the surface. When this band of winds, normally ringing the North Pole, weakens, it can split.

Beginning tomorrow, we will launch a series of public conversations across Northeast Ohio, engaging residents in dialogue ...

Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says. If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay ...

Looking back on more than 20 years of climate agitation, two themes emerge: a stubborn unwillingness by campaigners to acknowledge any inconvenient science, and ever-shifting favorite stories, firs… ...

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two ...

As climate change brings pathogens into new environments, one of the world’s southernmost population of polar bears — and the animals they hunt — are encountering more than they used to.