The snow-ice weather warning for all of Ireland has been extended.

Met Éireann has extended the country-wide, snow-ice weather warning ahead of another "very cold" evening.

This GENIUS hack for defrosting car windows will honestly change your life.

Spending 15 minutes trying to defrost your car windows in the morning before work. Honestly, there's no bigger pain in the ass.

Killer polar vortex leaves 12 dead as -26C cold snaps rail lines.

While the UK faces it’s coldest temperatures of the winter so far, in the US, Hell has literally frozen over. Residents of Hell in Michigan have experienced temperatures as low as minus -26C, according to the National Weather Service, as northern states are gripped by a deadly Polar Vortex. 

Elsewhere, in Chicago, the average temperature -17C, making it the second coldest day in 150 years. Locals have been warned "not to breathe deeply" outside as the freezing temperatures have led to Lake Michigan to solidify with mesmerising effect. The polar vortex is wreaking havoc across the States leaving at least 12 people dead, including a college student who was found in the freezing cold at the University of Iowa. Authorities said the body of Gerald Belz was found behind an academic hall just before 3am on Wednesday by campus police. The 18-year-old was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The blast of polar air that enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday closed schools and businesses and while straining utilities with some of the lowest temperatures in a generation as low as minus -45C with wind chill. The conditions snapped rail lines and saw thousands of flights cancelled. 

Polar Vortex Makes Chicago, North Dakota Colder Than the South Pole!

 

Chicago gets rebranded #Chiberia as Polar Vortex hits the US.

The UK may have seen its first flurries of snow in recent days, but the US city of Chicago has been experiencing Arctic levels of cold as the Polar Vortex takes hold. People from the city on the shores of Lake Michigan have been posting their footage to social media and rebranding their home #Chiberia as temperatures dropped to -28 degrees Celsius, the coldest in the city on record.

Met Éireann has just issued a FIVE DAY snow-ice warning for the entire country

Met Éireann has just issued a snow-ice warning for the entire country. As we're all aware, it is absolutely freezing today and it's only going to get colder according to the latest forecast from Met Éireann.

Melting Ice Reveals Land That Hasn't Seen "Light of Day" in 40,000 Years.

Baffin Island is the fifth-largest island in the world and a bitterly cold slice of Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle. But things are heating up in Baffin.

Divers recover glass they believe could be part of its landing lights from a wrecked craft 100ft underwater .

More than 80 years after the famed pilot disappeared with her navigator somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, divers claim they may have found part of Emilia Earhart's plane submerged off an island in Papua New Guinea.

Niagara Falls Looks Like It Has Frozen Over And The Pictures Are Amazing.

Winter might be cold and bleak but it does have its perks. Yep, those likes on Instagram. It's so cold that parts of Niagara Falls, the world-famous collection of waterfalls on the US-Canada border, have frozen over with amazing results showing that a layer of ice had formed over the waterfalls. The pictures flooding on to the 'gram is amazing.

Australia has been hit with the hottest heatwave ever recorded

We wouldn't be able. Many people we know and love live in Australia but living in this heat would be our worst nightmare.

California Teen Collects 40,000 Golf Balls to Save the Ocean.

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gripping a cotton swab with its tail.

Met Éireann warn that snow and widespread frost will hit Ireland tonight

It's coming. It feels like we've been waiting for the snow to hit Ireland for a while now, however, Met Éireann is predicting that wintry conditions are set to head for the country tonight.

A status yellow weather warning has been issued for two counties in Ireland.

Be careful out there.A status yellow weather warning has been issued for two counties this afternoon.

Shifting north magnetic pole forces unprecedented navigation fix

Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic, scientists said.

Europe in grip of big freeze as brutal weather causes chaos across the continent.

Brutal weather is continuing to plague Europe with parts of the continent hit by extreme snowfall. Blizzards around the continent have been blamed for at least 26 deaths this week, including skiers in Austria and Norway.

Good News: The Hole in the Ozone Layer Over Antarctica Is Healing Itself.

Good news for all climate lovers: A new UN report shows that the damage to the Ozone Layer could be fully repaired by 2060, a recent UN report shows the ongoing healing of the Ozone Layer.

Step Inside Winter’s Most Spectacular Wonderland at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Northeast China.

Every winter, millions of tourists flock to Harbin a city in the northeast corner of China o stand in temperatures nearing -40 degrees Fahrenheit and look at giant blocks of ice. Of. Donning fur coats and parkas over their dresses and suits, the couples pose for pictures after exchanging rings, then collectively cut a massive frozen wedding cake.

There's a crystal-blue lake in Kazakhstan where trees grow upside down like something out of a sci-fi movie.

Nestled in a forested area in the Tian Shan Mountains, Kazakhstan'sLake Kaindy invites those who visit to take a swim in a surreal underwater world. Created by an earthquake that took place in 1911, the freshwater lake is home to an array of fir trees that not only jet out from its waters but that all those who take a dive to explore an entire forest sunken under its clear waters.

Luxury doomsday bunkers where world's richest hope to survive apocalypse.

More than 5,000 people will be able to take cover at Vivos xPoint, near the Black Hills in South Dakota, US, during apocalypses and other disasters. But they've been priced at a staggering $35,000 (£27,000) each upfront, and then a further annual rent of $1,000 (£790).

Teen Greta Thunberg tells climate negotiators they aren't mature enough.

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student from Sweden, captured the attention of the world recently when she shamed climate change negotiators at a United Nations climate summit in Poland."You are not mature enough to tell it like is," she said at the COP24 summit, which ended late Saturday night after two weeks of tense negotiations.