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Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.
Thunderstorms above Oklahoma sculpted a seldom-seen spectacle in the sky Friday morning. The formation of a horseshoe vortex cloud was witnessed in Norman by storm chaser Connor Mellace as the ...
A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be ...
A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...
Colorado could see more frequent and intense temperature swings, in part due to climate change. DENVER — Colorado is no ...
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...