The organization's annual update to its decadal climate report shows an 80% chance that at least one year between 2025 and ...

Drought and extreme heat frequently coincide, drying out vegetation, which can lead to agricultural losses and increase the ...

A polar vortex is a large area of low-pressure and cold air that circulates around the Earth’s poles, typically confined to the Arctic or Antarctic regions. This swirling mass of frigid air is held in ...

The vortex is constantly spinning in a counter-clockwise direction around the North Pole. Its counterpart in the southern hemisphere is the Antarctic polar vortex. During the summer months in the ...

A recent study confirmed that the Antarctic ozone layer is currently healing ... as opposed to natural weather variability – such as El Niño, La Niña, or the polar vortex – or the effects of rising ...

Due to colder temperatures and isolation from mid-latitudes by the polar vortex (a strong system of wind near the ... then viewed this fingerprint through the framework of actual Antarctic ozone hole ...

A new study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as ... La Niña, and the polar vortex. "While detecting a statistically significant increase in ozone is relatively straightforward ...

A polar vortex collapse occurs when the strong, cold winds that normally circulate around the Arctic or Antarctic a weaken and break apart, allowing frigid air to spill southward into lower latitudes.

"High temperatures this week at the U.S. McMurdo Antarctic research station are forecast to be in the teens and low 20s (above zero), easily warmer than the highs parts of the Midwest will see ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many ...

Arctic ice has seen what scientists found to be “irreversible” thinning since 2007; Antarctic sea ice hit ... much of the public to the polar vortex. The phrase refers to a naturally occurring ...