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 ...

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

The last time Central Park saw 96 degrees in June was 1888, and New Yorkers appear to be headed for a sweltering summer: the ...

Extreme heat is only becoming more common. In the United States, heat waves now occur three times as often as they did in the ...

Have you looked outside lately and thought, “Something just feels off”? Maybe it’s the weirdly warm winter, or the wildfire ...

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 ...