As the winter season unfolds, meteorologists are looking at many things in the atmosphere that can influence our temperatures and snowfall. The polar vortex is one ...

Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved ...

Under the influence of global warming, the Arctic is transitioning from a state dominated by multi-year thick ice to a "New ...

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Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...