Bitingly cold Arctic air keeps pummeling the U.S. with ruthless cold snaps—despite warming winters nationwide. A study explains why: the solution lies far above your head, in the upper atmosphere ...

The polar vortex is shifting in ways that could unleash extreme cold, violent storms, and unstable weather patterns across ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling ...

With the warming of winter creeping in, extreme cold events were expected to fade, but that was not the case. Though certain cold spells were normal variations in climate that felt cold against a hot ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...