Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the ...

There is a general consensus about the frequency of nor’easters in a warmer world, but were still big questions about their ...

One new study identifies a 17 percent increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S.—and this study explains why. Researchers found that two specific ...

An international research group has found that extreme cold snaps in the United States are driven by disruptions in a high-altitude Arctic air mass called the polar vortex, Hebrew University of ...

Arctic amplification is the intense warming in the Arctic. Greenhouse gases raise air temperatures, melting sea ice and thawing permafrost and initiating a feedback loop accelerating climate change.

Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

The following is the July 2, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for ...

Different governments have taken different approaches to this competition. Norway is trying to replace immigrants with the ...

New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says ...