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

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

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 ...

This video explores the mechanisms behind the polar vortex, how climate change is affecting its stability, and what that means for the future of Earth’s climate.

Climate scientist Michael Mann explains the complex connections between climate change, atmospheric waves, and extreme ...

As we sweat away the summer, imagine walking out of 98-degree heat and into a 72-degree, climate-controlled ballpark to watch ...

The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America's winter of repeated polar vortex invasions, meteorologists warn. It will stay frozen there all ...

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 ...

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