He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912. By Clay Risen Roland Huntford, a journalist and historian who ...

A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East. By Eric Niiler If the planet is getting ...

An arctic blast is expected to bring brutally cold temperatures to over 100 million people in the northeastern United States. Ohio will experience frigid temperatures, with wind chills in some areas ...

CHARLOTTE — The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced plans to build elevated express lanes on Interstate 77 in South Charlotte. The project is expected to cost $3.2 billion, with ...

American Express, the major credit card and global financial services corporation, is ready to call Charlotte home by the end of the year. AmEx employees will take over several floors at Legacy Union ...

Don't put away that winter jacket just yet. The polar vortex is expected to be impacted by a sudden warmup of the stratosphere, which will bring freezing temperatures to the Northeast this weekend and ...

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LEXINGTON — Make plans to have the Chill of a Lifetime on Saturday, Feb. 7, when the Lexington Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Kentucky hits the water at the Texas Roadhouse in Beaumont Centre.

The 2026 Watertown Polar Plunge is scheduled for Feb. 7 at Stokes-Thomas Lake City Park. Registration will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Sandbar, 100 N. Lake Drive, with the Plunge ...

Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s film is both a nature doc and a haunting ethnographic portrait. By David Rooney Chief ...

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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 ...