Learn about the ozone hole above Antarctica that is now confirmed to be shrinking due to reductions of harmful ...

A polar vortex collapse is poised to unleash severe winter weather across the US, Canada, and potentially the UK, causing ...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ...

It’s really, really cold again — as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the ...

Is this stream of cold air "a polar vortex?" Not in the truest sense of the word, scientists say. This week the actual polar vortex, which lives in the stratosphere, may be helping to steer the polar ...

The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected pattern this winter — one that’s made part of the United States the most unusually cold place on the planet, at least so far this year. While the ...

In recent days, extreme weather brought freezing temperatures to several states across the country due to a polar vortex that peaked on Wednesday, February 19. According to The Associated Press ...

Thanks to the global reduction in ozone-depleting substances, some of us may see the Antarctic ozone layer hole disappear in ...

Scientists say it’s being caused by a misbehaving polar vortex combining with a key weather pattern that seems to be stuck in place. Some scientists say these factors and this winter could be ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many ...