A displaced polar vortex is expected to bring dangerously cold temperatures to much of the U.S. The arctic blast is driven by a weakened polar vortex, which allows frigid air to move south from the ...

A gunshot rang out from next door. My wife, Tiffany, and I paused in the middle of our Christmas dinner. Seconds later a phone call broke the silence. “I just shot a polar bear that’s been trying to ...

For Bethpage resident Paula Braband, February on Long Island doesn’t mean hibernating indoors. It means keeping a family tradition alive by plunging into the icy cold Atlantic. Braband, a health care ...

Ms. Willis Aronowitz is a writer, a critic and the editorial director of The Meteor. In the middle of the night a few days before Thanksgiving, I woke up with excruciating abdominal cramps. A CT scan ...

Waves of frigid air will continue to be released into much of the eastern United States through at least the middle of the month. The ongoing pattern may trend stormier with areas of snow and ice ...

JOINS US NOW WITH YOUR POLAR PLUNGE FORECAST. LOOK. MANY BRAVE SOULS, BUT BIG HEARTS WILL BE PLUNGING INTO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY THERE TOMORROW. BUT IT IS GOING TO BE VERY, VERY COLD. SO DEFINITELY BE ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of these majestic predators reduced to skin and bone, clinging to ever-shrinking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have reported some rare good news from the Arctic. As the climate changes and the ice melts, in one region at least, ...

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex. When you purchase through links ...

DONALDSON WALKS US THROUGH THE CHANGES BEING MADE TO PLUNGE WEEK. WE’RE CONVINCED THAT WE WILL BE READY TO BRING PEOPLE IN THEN IT’S A MATTER OF THE CONDITIONS ON THE DAY OF THE PLUNGE. THIS IS THE ...

Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their noses together in greeting and chuffed — a soft, breathy, snorting sound that ...

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree. By Eric Niiler The polar vortex is a ribbon of ...