A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

Peary, for his part, made another attempt to reach the North Pole in 1905-06, his sixth Arctic expedition. By then, he had come to think of the pole as his birthright. Any endeavor to reach the ...

The Arctic Circle is only 380 miles (610km ... Better protection for these species is urgently needed. Establishing a new North Pole marine reserve where industrial activities such as shipping ...

But scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift ... Poles – has plunged to a record low. Last month, Arctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent for ...

On March 9, the polar vortex wobbled and then snapped back the other way as mighty winds, suddenly shifting from the west to the east - something that typically happens once a year - usually in the ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...

TASS/. The North Pole unique ice-resistant self-propelled platform during the maiden expedition changed successfully an ice floe to continue drifting in the Arctic Ocean's straits. This is the ...

British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt to become the first people ever to sail to the North Pole. With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate ...

TASS/. The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI, St. Petersburg) scheduled the first voyage of the North Pole self-propelled ice-resistant platform for 2022, the institute’s Director ...

The Arctic polar vortex is a circle of strong, cold winds that picks up every winter over the North Pole. The vortex is always present, but it strengthens in the winter due to a redistribution of ...