In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and ...

US Coast Guard unveils first polar icebreaker in more than 25 years The ship will be ceremonially commissioned in August in Juneau, Alaska, which is the vessel’s homeport. Until then, the icebreaker ...

It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Coast Guard will expedite the delivery of new polar icebreakers to maintain its presence in the Arctic amid growing challenges from Russia and China.

Higher Education Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining Columbia University student Yunseo Chung, a U.S. permanent resident, is one of several students whom ICE has sought to arrest and deport ...

OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology is expanding the drought emergency declared in April to include areas in the North and Central Cascade Mountains and parts of the Puget Sound area.