Throughout Thursday, showers will increasingly turn to snow in northern Scotland, and a strong, perhaps gale force northerly ...

Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it. A new study says that as the world gets warmer, parts of ...

There is a moment each year when the Arctic stops reflecting light and starts holding it. It does not announce itself.

BAUDETTE, Minn. - The polar vortex is not so bad when you're in a well-insulated, heated shack sitting on two feet of Lake of the Woods ice cranking up walleyes and saugers from the depths. You expect ...

Bill Chelmowski, boat operator for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, digs a hole to measure the ice on Lake Pepin Tuesday as part of the Corps' annual survey of the ice thickness on ...

WASHINGTON – Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it. A new study says that as the world gets ...

It only took temperatures falling to double digits below zero for a few nights, and then winds to calm down a bit, for an already cold Lake Superior to start freezing up good. The big lake went from ...

That warming is reducing the amount of Arctic sea ice, allowing more heat to escape from the ocean. The scientists think that the ocean energy that is being released is causing a weakening of the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it. A new study says that as the world ...