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

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

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

The polar vortex is Earth's frozen guardian—but that guardian is starting to fail. This video dives into the science behind ...

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 ...