Jet Stream vs. Gulf Stream: What’s the Difference?
While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.
Warmth is weakening the polar vortex. Here’s what it means for extreme cold.
Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...
Climate change may be to blame for 10 inches of snow in Florida
Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...
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World's Largest Iceberg On Collision Course With South Georgia's Penguins
The iceberg A23a, which originally calved from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, became trapped on the seafloor and ensnared in an ocean vortex for decades. It finally broke free in December ...
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Earth’s warming is weakening the polar vortex. Here’s what that means for extreme cold.
The vortex can sometimes shift away from the pole ... Newer studies also back up the idea that warming of the Arctic and the oceans may be encouraging weather patterns that allow polar air ...
50 Of The Most Fascinating, Stunning And Dangerous Natural Phenomena
Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...
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Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak
A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist Posted Yesterday This story was originally ...
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Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record hot streak
Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event, fueled hurricanes ...
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Oceans are warming faster and faster as the Earth traps more energy
The world’s oceans are warming four times faster than they were in the late 1980s, according to a new study. The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean ...