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 ...

Whether responding to a hurricane on the Gulf Coast, a wildfire in the West, or a polar vortex in the Midwest, restoring energy to critical sites—emergency shelters, hospitals, and communication ...

There is also a distinct vocabulary of polar English. It is so recently recognised, most of its words are not yet in the most comprehensive record of English, the Oxford English Dictionary.

In fact, what is now Victoria was once within the polar circle, up to 80 degrees south of the equator and shrouded in darkness for months at a time. Despite these harsh conditions, dinosaurs ...

For this all-citizen and private polar launch, it will be the first time that the quartet will be in space, and it will be the first time any human has done a 90-degree circularized orbit ...

But a group of scientists has demonstrated that if the world stays on course to warm up to 1.5 degrees — or even stays at its current level of 1.2 degrees above preindustrial levels — polar ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Neil the polar bear is no spring chicken, but St. Paul's Como Park Zoo & Conservatory wants visitors to know he's happy and healthy as he enters his golden years. "Neil’s well ...

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s polar bear Laerke went viral over the weekend when a video of her behavior caused concern for some commenters. Zoo staff told The News Tribune on Tuesday that the ...

Hollywood veteran and all around multi-hyphenate Salma Hayek is adding yet another title to her résumé this spring: swimsuit model. Shot in Hayek's native Mexico, the cover features the actress ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...