Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

Bio-inspired vortex-anchored filter captures more than 97% of floating, underwater and emulsified oils, even under strong ...

Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...

Understanding the Polar Vortex The polar vortex is like a massive whirlpool of frigid air moving around our planet's poles.

The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...

The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.

Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico did not cause the record-setting snowfall, but the conditions may have ...

The colossal A23a iceberg has travelled more than 3,000km since it broke off from its Antarctican ice shelf. In what sounds like a potential plotline for Speed 3, one of the world’s biggest icebergs ...

The polar vortex picks up strength during the winter ... At the same time, the planet’s oceans have warmed to extraordinary levels in recent years, and some of the planet’s waters, such ...

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in danger. The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South ...

It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...