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

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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida, dropping coastal ...

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