Greetings from Ice Planet Hoth. Indeed, much of the eastern United States resembles the fictional frozen Star Wars world, and now folks there are now enduring some of the worst cold on Earth: "The ...

Welcome to the Frozen Apple. Temperatures in New York City have remained below freezing since Friday — and they’re expected to stay that way until at least early next week as arctic air has settled ...

The USCGC Polar Star freed an Australian tour vessel near Antarctica on January 17—the 50th anniversary of its commissioning into the Coast Guard. The Australian luxury cruise ship Scenic Eclipse II ...

Satellite image of a bomb cyclone. It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere. We are actually having a proper one this year. Irrespective of what is going on with our climate, it is supposed to be cold ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating carbon release and potentially amplifying climate change, according to a new ...

In the wake of the historic winter storm that blasted 40 states this weekend, a dome of Arctic air associated with the Polar Vortex is bringing days of life-threatening temperatures to much of the ...

Abstract: This article reviews existing and planned contributions of spaceborne microwave radiometry from P to S band to new measurements of key geophysical variables with a particular focus on the ...

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree. By Eric Niiler The polar vortex is a ribbon of ...

A major snow and ice storm is expected to affect tens of millions of people from Texas to New England over the weekend. The storm is very large, and it could be particularly dangerous because a frigid ...

Alabama high school football will see a dramatic change for the 2026 and 2027 seasons as the new classes and regions have been set. The reclassification and shifting of regions came following the ...