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 ...

While global temperatures are rising, climate change is paradoxically causing harsher and colder winters in many regions.

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

Perversely, the more we try to cool off, the more we heat the planet. Cooling accounts for a staggering one-fifth of global ...

The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around the North Pole, but it sometimes plunges southward into the U.S., Europe and Asia.

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

From last winter’s polar vortex to this week’s heat wave, Chicagoans have experienced several degrees of uncomfortableness in a few short months. We weather the extreme weather well enough, thanks to ...

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

With over twenty years proudly behind them, The Henhouse Prowlers remain firmly focused on the road ahead, while harnessing ...

Because Michigan is not a hot climate - and we don’t have frequent heat waves like we’re experiencing now - our bodies are ...