President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet – sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife ...

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is ...

In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...

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

The United States must build a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers to counter Russia and China’s advantage in the Arctic.

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a ...

The Arctic polar vortex is a circle of strong, cold winds that picks up every winter over the North Pole. The vortex is always present, but it strengthens in the winter due to a redistribution of ...