With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...

Do you believe in Santa? If not, you might find yourself on a train heading toward the North Pole in order to help you believe, or this might just sound like the plot of "The Polar Express" to you.

Ready for some serious cold? The planet's most extreme cold air will be barreling into the central and eastern United States this coming weekend "like a wrecking ball," said Weather Trader ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

The polar vortex is so back, and in some parts of the country, the weather system will bring with it up to a foot of snow. If “polar vortex” is giving you déjà vu, that’s because we’ve heard it before ...

A shifting polar vortex is expected to bring three waves of Arctic air to the central and eastern U.S. Tennessee is forecast to experience winter weather, including a mix of snow and ice, in early ...

The polar vortex has broken, and severe temperatures are set to dominate most of the country in the coming days. Temperatures in the 10s are forecast for much of the Northeast, and subzero ...

Scientists are still trying to understand the atmospheric disturbances. A significant change in the atmosphere means the weeks after Thanksgiving could be colder and snowier than normal across ...

High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather ...

SEATTLE — The USCGC Polar Star, the only heavy icebreaker operated by the United States, is leaving this week from its homeport on Puget Sound for a four-month deployment to Antarctica, the ship’s ...