The polar vortex is a massive, swirling band of cold air that normally traps frigid temperatures around the Arctic. However, ...

Connecting Arctic and Third Pole in research and policy is crucial for addressing climate volatility and glacial preservation ...

A polar vortex collapse occurs when the strong, cold winds that normally circulate around the Arctic or Antarctic ... impact this polar jet stream. Regions across the US witnessed widespread ...

A new study from Kyushu University points the finger at an unlikely culprit: mixed-phase clouds that behave like a thermal blanket during the polar night ... A warmer Arctic can warp the jet stream, ...

It is shocking that 2C is plausible,” said Adam Scaife of Britain’s Met Office, echoing a view now shared throughout the ...

As May’s cooler temperatures give way to summertime warmth in Michigan, the Great Lakes are slightly cooler than usual but ...

China’s frenzied development drive across Tibet — marked by dam construction, mining, and road building — is pushing one of ...

The rapidly melting Arctic is opening up an unspoilt region to shipping, military and oil and minerals activity, experts have ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that ...

For the scientists aboard the Norwegian Polar Institute's research vessel Kronprins Haakon, these fleeting encounters were the culmination of months of planning and decades of Arctic fieldwork.

It might sound silly, but some folks in the polar geoengineering ... in the summer the Inuit fish the arctic char that run into the bay from lakes and streams. When the ice returns in the fall ...