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 ...

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

Technically, the polar vortex is 20 miles high in the stratosphere. ... “Climate change does not mean that we will expect to see no more cold weather.

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 ...

Extreme heat warnings stretched from Windsor to Timmins; humidex values climbed to the mid-40s. In Toronto, panic over ...

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into ...

A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research ...

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...