The VORTEX hosts Earth Day, a unique event in celebration of our 35th Coral Season, with special guests the Guy Forsyth Band. 5-7 p.m. - Earth Day Activities 7-10 p.m. - The Guy Forsyth Band Earth Day ...

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, is blowing scores of ethereal "vortex rings" every day from a single vent located in one of its most active craters. On July 23, Boris Behncke, a ...

Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has ...

The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south - a ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a single anticyclonic storm observed for more than 300 years, stretches more than two Earth ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have made a significant breakthrough by detecting a sizable dark vortex within Neptune's atmosphere. Intriguingly, an ...

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In 2018, satellite images captured a stunning spiral of cyanobacteria blooming in the Baltic Sea. The swirling mass of microbes helped to create a massive "dead zone" the size of West Virginia that ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many locations ...

What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists. Powerful winter ...