polar vortex

A woman is shown bending over with a white propane tank in her hand and wearing a hooded jacket.

Freezing temps wreak havoc on utilities in US and Mexico

February 17, 2021Top of The World

Top of The World: The record-breaking winter temperatures, part of a pattern of extreme weather caused by climate change, have left people from Minnesota to Mississippi to northern Mexico with rolling blackouts. And, Peruvian prosecutors are investigating the use of “courtesy doses” of China’s Sinopharm. Also, Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the Libya uprising that led to the overthrow and killing of longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

A man walks in the snow next to the Houses of Parliament in London on March 1. Brtain and much of the rest of Europe have been hit with a late winter blast linked to extreme warming in the Arctic.

Europe’s cold blast, Arctic’s heat wave are ‘two sides of the same coin’

February 28, 2018Environment

Satellite image of the United States on January 4

Weather ‘bombs’ and the link between severe winters and climate change

January 4, 2018Science

A man is silhouetted against condensation rising off of Lake Michigan in Chicago on January 6, 2014. Chicago was experiencing historic cold this week.

Could the polar vortex have something to do with global warming?

January 6, 2014Environment

What’s a deep freeze for the US is just another day in northern Canada

January 6, 2014Environment