Three factors are combining to increase the likelihood of a weaker polar vortex this winter, the website reports. And a ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

An international research group has found that extreme cold snaps in the United States are driven by disruptions in a high-altitude Arctic air mass called the polar vortex, Hebrew University of ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S.—and this study explains why. Researchers found that two specific ...

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 frequent ...

Much of the U.S. is being blasted by ice, snow and wind, as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend is maintaining its frigid grip.

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

Producers with crop losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can apply for USDA assistance beginning July 10.

Applications for $16 billion in federal assistance for North Carolina agricultural producers who suffered crop losses from ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

The $16 billion in disaster aid covers crop losses due to natural disasters from 2023 and 2024. It's the largest chunk of the ...