Water, salt, and heat all get mixed within eddies with important climate consequences, but the boundary of an eddy is hard to ...

Meteorologists warn that a stretched polar vortex could bring severe winter weather to much of the United States.

Colder air is becoming re-established in the central and eastern United States after a recent warmup. Over the next 10-14 ...

What is the polar vortex? Mississippi weekend weather forecast calls for winter storm with lows in the teens, paired with ...

Discover how to build a multi-stage water siphoning and vortex device using repurposed plastic bottles and simple household items. Watch water flow through homemade channels as captivating vortices ...

A severe winter storm that brought crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. in late January 2026 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Forget, for now, that “polar bear” ocean swim. Public health officials have issued an ocean water quality alert ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water. Adam Subhas of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in ...

The Great Lakes are taking one last shot in 2025 to remind everyone their waves can be more fierce than what the vast oceans typically conjure up. Gale force winds producing waves not seen since the ...

King tides will arrive along the San Diego coast Friday and Saturday, bringing the most extreme shifts in ocean water levels. These naturally occurring events offer a glimpse of what rising sea levels ...

Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear on our pages. This year, tidbits about plastic recycling, whale sharks and crab Rangoon enlightened and ...