A study led by the UAB and the CREAF shows that the loss of nitrogen from Arctic soil not only deprives plants of a vital ...

New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

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 ...

Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...

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