Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Authorities say a family in Detroit reached out to the city’s homeless services for help almost three months before two children, ages 2 and 9, likely froze to death while sleeping in a van.

Children are more likely than adults to get into medical distress when exposed to the cold, said Dr. Jim Getzinger of Corewell Health.

The children, ages 9 and 2, were found frozen to death on midday Monday in the Hollywood Casino Hotel at Greektown parking garage, police said.

An eyewitness, who was skating on the frozen glacial lake about a 56-mile drive southeast from Anchorage, said she heard noises and then saw the glacier break off, or calve, according to KTUU. A video ...