A chunk of the polar vortex is coming to the Chicago area this week, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season with ...

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was -129 degrees Fahrenheit and the warmest temperature ever recorded in ...

Many of the coldest places on Earth are uninhabitable and inaccessible due to extreme temperatures and harsh conditions. Some ...

For those inhabiting areas prone to snow and intense wind chill, it's hard to imagine frostier or less favorable conditions. But they exist. Some locations have been abandoned by humans altogether ...

The Antarctic is the coldest and windiest continent on Earth. It is 11°C colder than the equivalent altitude in the Arctic. The area is also very poor in natural resources. Antarctica is governed ...

The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s coldest city. “No other place on Earth ...

The search for the best observatory site in the world has led to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth, a place where no human is thought to have ever ...

And there's perhaps nowhere where that's more evident than in the tiny village of Oymyakon, Russia, regarded by most at the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth. Temperatures there average ...

So why isn't the darkest time of the year also the coldest? The answer has to do with Earth's tilt and how our ... help keep those locations warm. "For areas immediately downwind of a large ...

The coldest places on Earth are found at, or close to, the North and South Pole. Mountainous areas are also very cold. Cold environments are found at higher latitudes and higher altitudes.