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 ...

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 ...

The Met Office has warned that colder weather is on the way thanks to 'rapidly weakening' winds in the polar vortex. Temperatures are set to drop across the UK following the warmest weekend of the ...