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

Instead, the polar vortex occurs primarily in the stratosphere, a layer of the atmosphere about 6 to 30 miles above the ground – above most of the weather with which you're familiar occurs ...

and it's what's happened here – it can lead to cold snaps on the ground, but not always. It's still early days in terms of ...

A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of ...

A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless has developed an innovative mast wind turbine that works by turning vibrational ...

The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South. And it looks as if we may get more arctic blasts in the coming ...

Americans have been warned to brace for more winter storms as Arctic winds are set to dump more ice and snow amid freezing temperatures.

This vortex has always existed and is not something new. What's happening now is that the jet stream — the usually west-to-east river of airway above ground that moves weather systems along ...

That led to Cincinnati dealing with its longest stretch of 6 inches or more of snow on the ground in 15 years. Up next: another visit from the polar vortex. An Arctic air mass plunges into the ...