NORAD’s Santa tracker is a Christmas tradition that’s become nearly global in scope.

Beryl regained hurricane strength over the weekend after a short downgrade to a tropical storm as it weakened over land.

This December, kick Christmas cheer into high gear with a special showing of “Elf” at the Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land.

Typhoon Mawar was a Category 4 super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph or greater when it crossed the northern tip of Guam on Wednesday night.

Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic’s fast-changing climate is threatening the ecosystems and people who live there.

The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years.

Current temperatures across the country easily show the cold air that started in Siberia, crossed the North Pole and is now headed toward Texas. Like dripping fudge, this shallow, cold air layer will settle in by Sunday morning and stick with us possibly into Wednesday. When does the cold arrive? So when does the cold air get HERE and how long does it last? The American model has been bullish on the arctic outbreak since Monday, while the European has had a comme-ci-comme-ca attitude.

On Day 11 of the elves’ magical trip around the Hightower family’s home, things took a tragic turn when father Matt Hightower forgot about the elves’ creative placement in the oven. According to his wife, Chelsea Hightower, the elves decided to get toasty after spending the previous day in the refrigerator, The Kansas City Star reports. When mom stepped out for a Target run, her creative display became a major disappointment after the father turned on the oven — with the elves still inside. According to The Kansas City Star, the elves were recovered after an hours-long shopping trip through the city to find replacements. They reappeared the next day on the counter with a message to parents: “Bake cookies, not elves.”Do you do the Elf on the Shelf each year?

Ice in the Arctic Ocean melted to its second lowest level on record this summer, triggered by global warming along with natural forces, U.S. scientists reported Monday. The extent of ice-covered ocean at the North Pole and extending further south to Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia reached its summertime low of 1.4 million square miles (3.7 million square kilometers) last week before starting to grow again. Arctic sea ice reaches its low point in September and its high in March after the winter. This year's melt is second only to 2012, when the ice shrank to 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which has been keeping satellite records since 1979. In the 1980s, the ice cover was about 1 million square miles (2.7 million square kilometers) bigger than current summer levels.

BERLIN A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. Expedition leader Markus Rex said Wednesday the RV Polarstern was able to reach the geographic North Pole because of large openings in sea ice above Greenland, where shipping would normally be too difficult. The mushy ice conditions the Polarstern encountered this year provide further evidence of the warming that scientists say is taking place in the Arctic. The MOSAiC expedition involves scientists from 17 nations, including the United States, France, Russia and China. The coronavirus pandemic almost caused the mission to be cut short, as travel restrictions made resupply and crew rotations difficult.