"If you want to lock eyes with a bear, you've got to make your way to Churchill," said John Gunter, CEO of Frontiers North, a ...

I’m not altogether a fan of what the writer Sara Wheeler has called the Big Willie school of expeditions. ‘To me,’ I once ...

In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ecosystem. For example, the polar bear represents the Arctic, sea turtles serve ...

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these ...

Few have endured what Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen did. Abandoned by their ship, these two Danes spent two winters in a ...

To reach the geographic North Pole is to go where few have tread. Only a handful of vessels in history have ever made this ...

Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers are melting at such a rate it’s changing the way the Earth spins, causing it to wobble off ...

Award-winning Israeli wildlife photographer Roie Galitz leads expeditions to remote regions to document the effects of ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...

(AP) — A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles ... from ...

Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible.” ...

Although it was only briefly seen during the live webcast of its launch, the Fram2 mission's zero-gravity indicator was ...