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 ...

E very four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publishes a report card about the state of infrastructure ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

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

It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Coast Guard will expedite the delivery of new polar icebreakers to maintain its presence in the Arctic amid growing challenges from Russia and China.

An AccuWeather map shows which areas could be impacted by Saharan dust this week. AccuWeather Much of the U.S. is also being impacted by wildfire smoke from neighboring Canada, which has already ...

What started as a random Google Maps curiosity turned into a journey for answers. We left Lake Havasu to visit The Yonder Vortex—an energy site said to spark healing and self-discovery. What we ...