The dynamic glacier front is a highlight of the late afternoon Zodiac excursion at Smeerenburgbreen, in the Bjornfjorden — a ...

Already in 1492, when Christopher Columbus embarked for the Indies, the German mariner and cosmographer Georg Martin Behaim had blazoned an animal that might be a polar bear near the North Pole of ...

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 ...

NORTH POLE — We haven't had a major dose of snow yet, at least in Utah's lower altitudes, but if you're hankering for a real taste of cold and ice, here you go — a polar bear trudging across ...

There are two main sub species of walrus, the Atlantic and Pacific – which both occupy different areas of the Arctic. The ...

What to know before chasing polar bears in the Russian high Arctic. By Adam Popescu . Sept. 2, ... You can't fake the beauty of this place a few hundred miles from the North Pole.

Polar bears evolved during a time when the North and South poles were not connected by ice or land, so they stayed at the North Pole. A wildlife photographer recently captured images of polar ...

An international research team is now adrift about 300 miles from the North Pole. It’s for a yearlong expedition to study the Arctic’s changing climate.

"The Arctic Ocean around the North Pole is basically an abyss, with very deep waters that will never be as productive as the shallower waters to the south where most polar bears live.

Updated at 1:29 p.m. ET. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin played the eco-warrior in Russia's Arctic on Thursday, helping scientists track endangered polar bears and calling for a cleanup of the region.

Polar bears are flocking to open landfills in the Arctic as climate change diminishes sea ice, ... so they stayed at the North Pole.