In a world that so often encourages women to play it safe, a young Kuwaiti woman named Yasmeen Almane dared to do the un ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

Magnetic north versus ‘true north’ At the top of the world in the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies the geographic North Pole, the point where all the lines of longitude that curve around Earth ...

Let's start with the North Pole you're probably thinking of: the Geographic North Pole, also known as the Terrestrial North Pole. This is literally the top of the Earth, the northernmost point on ...

The thick ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole has melted, leaving a mile-wide stretch of water at the top of the world. North Pole visitor Malcolm McKenna, a paleontologist at the ...

As for the rest of the time, legend has it that Santa Claus resides at the North Pole where he, his wife, Mrs. Claus, and an army of elves spend the other 364 days making the toys that fill his ...

Like a spinning top, this shift alters the axis about which the Earth spins and moves the geographical North Pole In the worst-case scenario (red) climate change could trigger the pole to move 89 ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.