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

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

(Image credit: NOAA Climate) A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and towards Europe, a new animation shows.

Runners participating in the North Pole Marathon are wasting no second of their training even if they are on a ship. Ahead of ...

Over 25 years, the Tara Polar Station will study climate change's impact in the Arctic.

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 ...

A worker at a remote work site in the Canadian Arctic was recently attacked and killed by a pair of polar bears.

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways no other ...

The North Pole was above freezing on Sunday after an extreme winter warming event caused temperatures to climb more than 36 F (20 C) in the high Arctic.

Digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect has joined the Polar Connect consortium, which is looking to build a subsea Internet cable through the North Pole to link Europe and Asia. Polar ...

How does the Arctic polar vortex work? The vortex is constantly spinning in a counter-clockwise direction around the North Pole. Its counterpart in the southern hemisphere is the Antarctic polar ...