While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

The intense cold snap about to settle over most of Canada and the U.S. has been dubbed a “polar vortex’, but Environment ...

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

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

“If the polar vortex is left alone ... surrounded by the Southern Ocean. In contrast, in the north Arctic sea ice is surrounded by alternating land and ocean: North America, the Atlantic ...

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 ...

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

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

It broke off from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986, but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex or whirlpool. In December, it broke free and is now on its final ...

This winter, it seems as if temperatures have been fluctuating more significantly. Over the past year, it seems as if severe weather events have been occurring more frequently as well. Answers as ...

The iceberg A23a, which originally calved from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, became trapped on the seafloor and ensnared in an ocean vortex for decades. It finally broke free in December ...