Thousands braved the cold waters of Lake Michigan for this year's Polar Plunge Chicago, raising more than $1.5 million for ...

Participants raised more than $1.5 million for Special Children's Charities and Special Olympics Illinois programs.

Chilly temperatures on the first day of March won’t stop thousands of people from jumping into Lake Michigan off Chicago’s ...

The infamous weather pattern is actually partly influencing our weather as February ends. And it may again throughout the month of March.

The polar vortex is splitting — an exceedingly rare phenomenon for this time of year that will be an unusual driver of warmer temperatures, as the calendar flips to March and meteorological spring.

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

In 2015, a terrifying image of a “horribly thin” polar bear took the world by storm - sparking conversation on how human-driven climate change was pushing the species toward extinction. While there ...

Did the Polar Bear defect? Find out how Pepsi’s 2026 Super Bowl commercial is calling out Coke and reigniting the fiercest rivalry in beverage history. Pepsi’s 2026 Super Bowl ad features Coke’s ...

Record cold temperatures are once again expected to hit a swath of the country this weekend—even plunging Florida into its coldest stretch of the last 15 years, potentially bringing snow to areas of ...

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle have stayed surprisingly fat, researchers report ...