The polar vortex is coming—and raising the odds for intense winter weather. In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex ...

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 ...

Climate change is a huge crisis, and we need to explore every alternative we can to mitigate it. This includes nuclear power for reliable energy and the mining of lithium needed to make ...

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 underestimating ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a ...

The polar vortex is a massive, swirling band of cold air that normally traps frigid temperatures around the Arctic. However, recent scientific studies show this vortex is weakening, which could ...

The northern lights — also called aurora borealis — could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, northern parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, New York ...