The military's northernmost base, located north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland, doesn't see the Sun for several months each year.
The vortex appears to be part of a huge filament of solar plasma that the space agency says broke away from the Sun’s surface and is now circling the north pole like a tornado. Unfortunately ...
In fact, it is caused by the North Pole, and is the effect of the Sun’s radiation bouncing off the Earth’s magnetic fields. Changes to the North Pole means that the Aurora Borealis (and its ...
The term “polar vortex” might conjure images of mythical icy storms swirling through the North Pole but in reality it’s a ...
Since 1979, the Arctic has warmed four times faster than the global average. This is an issue because the region acts as a refrigerator for the rest of the world — it helps cool the planet ...