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 ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

The Arctic is undergoing profound environmental shifts, marked by unprecedented warming and ecosystem changes. A critical consequence of this transformation is the rise of extreme wildland fire events ...

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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.

The frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather has tripled in the last 75 years, according to an ...

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

Have you looked outside lately and thought, “Something just feels off”? Maybe it’s the weirdly warm winter, or the wildfire ...